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- α3618Ἀπότρωκτονapocope… in the case of] a)/lfiton ["barley-groats"]. This, they say, apocope, Epicharmus was the first to discover.
- α1972Ἀνανέμεινto review, to rehearse[Means] the same as 'to know well'. Epicharmus [sc. uses the word in this way]. But Herodotus has given [middle-voice] a)nane/mesqai the meaning 'to recount'.
- δ1179ΔιονύσιοςDionysius, Dionysios… philosopher himself. [He wrote] Letters and On the poems of Epicharmus.
- α1482Ἀμάμυξιςamamyxis… vine [itself] is so called. The noun also occurs in Epicharmus and in Sappho.
- ε1425Ἐν πέντε κριτῶν γόνασιin (the) laps of five judges… long ago, 5 judges used to judge the comedies, as Epicharmus says. In Homer it takes the form 'it lies in the laps of the gods'. [The phrase arose] because the judges used to …
- α4613Ἀφ' ἱερᾶςfrom a holy… play checkers there is something called a 'holy line'. Thus Epicharmus. Look under 'I will move the [sc. stone] from a holy.'
- α1451Ἄλφιbarley-meal… end of a word] is called bitten-off, which they say Epicharmus first discovered.
- α1846Ἀναδενδράδαvine which grows up trees; anadendras… amamuxis is called this. The noun is also found in Epicharmus and Sappho.
- ε106Ἐγκομβώσασθαιto bundle oneself up… "folding my tunic double over me, I bundled myself up." Epicharmus [writes]: "now if indeed that he has bundled himself up well..." [He writes this] in Amykos.
- κ371Καρδιώττεινto have heartburn, to have stomach-ache… ["to be starving"]. Apollodoros in the sixth [book] of On Epicharmus says that the Sicilians call 'having a stomach-ache because of hunger' kardiw/ttein -- which Xenophon calls boulimia=n ["to be starving"]. And many call …
- κ2603Κυδάζεταιis reviled[Meaning he/she/it] rebukes, is abused by all. Epicharmus [writes] in Amykos: "Amykos, do not revile my eldest brother." And Aeschylus in Iphigeneia [writes]: "not to be reviled by women". In the masculine, [the noun] …
- δ338ΔεινόλοχοςDeinolochos, Deinolochus… He was [born] in the seventy-third Olympiad, the son of Epicharmus, though some [say] his student. He produced 14 dramas in Doric dialect.
- κ2030Κόνδυλονknuckle… seems, hence the Attic speakers; but Kolaphos is [used] in Epicharmus. Aristophanes [writes]: "if the child asks for wine, give him a knuckle". [Said] in order to accustom children not to ask for anything …
- μ20ΜάγνηςMagnes… a young man he overlaps in time with the aged Epicharmus. He composed 9 comedies, and won 2 victories. This man was a poet of Old Comedy. "Very frequently he set up trophies of …
- η481Ἥρας δὲ δεσμοὺς ὑπὸ υἱέοςHera's bindings by (her) son… Heracles. Klemes [recounts this]. The story [is found] also in Epicharmus, in [his] Revellers or Hephaestus.