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Headword:
*dio/dwros
Adler number: delta,1152
Translated headword: Diodoros, Diodorus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He too [was] a comic poet.[1]
Among his plays is
Girl Piper, as
Athenaios says in the tenth [book] of the
Deipnosophists.[2] But in the 12th [book] he says that
Heiress and
Festival-Attenders also [sc. are by Diodoros].[3]
Greek Original:*dio/dwros, kai\ au)to\s kwmiko/s. tw=n drama/twn au)tou= e)stin *au)lhtri/s, w(s *)aqh/naios e)n tw=| deka/tw| tw=n *deipnosofistw=n le/gei. e)n de\ tw=| ib# fhsi/n, o(/ti kai\ *)epi/klhros kai\ *panhguristai/.
Notes:
C3 BCE (New Comedy); OCD(4) s.v. '
Diodorus(1)'; Kassel-Austin, PCG V pp.25-30.
[1] Phrases of this kind generally relate to the immediately preceding entry, but not in this case (see
delta 1151). Perhaps he was the son of a comic poet, and the father's name has dropped out: cf.
alpha 3737,
phi 327. The same might have happened at
epsilon 2493.
[2]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 10.431C (10.38 Kaibel).
[3]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 6.235D (6.27 Kaibel), 6.239A (6.36 Kaibel). ['12th' needs emendation, to 6th.]
Keywords: biography; comedy; meter and music; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 December 2004@00:20:47.
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