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Headword:
*sw/patros
Adler number: sigma,846
Translated headword: Sopater, Sopatros
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Comic poet.[1] Among his plays are
Hippolytos,
Scientist,
Bookworms[2] or Woman from Knidos,
Parade of Ghosts,
Gates,
Orestes,
Lentil-soup; as
Athenaeus [says] in
Deipnosophists.[3]
Greek Original:*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:
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Sopater testimonium #5 Kassel-Austin.
NB:
sigma 847 should be part of this entry.
[1] Of
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.)
[2] Reading
*si/lfai, from
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 3.101B [3.58 Kaibel];
*silfi/a is transmitted here.
[3]
Athenaeus,
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].
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; food; geography; mythology; women
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 4 December 2001@08:00:00.
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