Σώπατρος

Sopater, Sopatros

Translated by Ross Scaife ✝4 Dec 2001Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 24 words
Comic poet.1 Among his plays are Hippolytos, Scientist, Bookworms2 or Woman from Knidos, Parade of Ghosts, Gates, Orestes, Lentil-soup; as Athenaeus [says] in Deipnosophists.3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σώπατρος, κωμικός· τῶν δραμάτων αὐτοῦ ἐστιν Ἱππόλυτος, Φυσιολόγος, Σιλφία ἢ Κνιδία, Νεκυῖα, Πύλαι, Ὀρέστης, Φακῆ· ὡς Ἀθήναιος ἐν Δειπνοσοφισταῖς.

Betacode
*sw/patros, kwmiko/s: tw=n drama/twn au)tou= e)stin *(ippo/lutos, *fusiolo/gos, *silfi/a h)\ *knidi/a, *nekui=a, *pu/lai, *)ore/sths, *fakh=: w(s *)aqh/naios e)n *deipnosofistai=s.

Notes (3)

  1. = Sopater testimonium #5 Kassel-Austin.
    NB: sigma 847 should be part of this entry.
  2. 1Of Paphos (in SW Cyprus), but probably lived in Alexandria. Flourished in last third of C4 BCE. He was more exactly a writer of burlesque parodies or phlyakes (for which see generally phi 547.) ↩
  3. 2Reading *si/lfai, from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.101B [3.58 Kaibel]; *silfi/a is transmitted here. ↩
  4. 3Athenaeus, Deipnosophists (on which see generally alpha 731) 3.101A-B [3.58 Kaibel], 3.109E [3.74], 4.160B [4.51], 4.175C [4.77], 6.230E [6.18]. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 15 Jan 2015
  1. expanded some refs — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. modified translation and keywords; augmented notes — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Ross Scaife ✝

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