Vol. 24 No. 2 (2018)
COMMENTARII BREVIORES

Some Late 4th-century Comic Fragments (Antiph. fr. 288 = Timocl. fr. 41 = adesp. tr. fr. 123a; Antiph. fr. 167; adesp. com. fr. 149) and Eratosthenes of Cyrene on Demosthenes

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  • S. Douglas Olson
S. Douglas Olson
University of Minnesota

Published 2019-06-10

Keywords

  • Antiphanes,
  • Demosthenes,
  • Plutarch,
  • Timocles
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Olson, S. D. (2019). Some Late 4th-century Comic Fragments (Antiph. fr. 288 = Timocl. fr. 41 = adesp. tr. fr. 123a; Antiph. fr. 167; adesp. com. fr. 149) and Eratosthenes of Cyrene on Demosthenes. Hyperboreus, 24(2), 339-342. https://doi.org/10.36950/CSMH7194

Abstract

The seeming assignment of an iambic trimeter line (= adesp. tr. fr. 123 a) to Antiphanes (fr. 288) and Timocles (fr. 41) at Pseudo-Plutarch Lives of the Ten Orators 845 b, in the course of a brief description of Demosthenes’ early career, is actually a reference to Antiph. fr. 167. 2–3, on the one hand, and to adesp. com. fr. 149 (which ought to be assigned to Timocles), on the other. Antiph. fr. 288 = Timocl. fr. 41 should thus be regarded as dubia at best.

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