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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:
= 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.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation and keywords; augmented notes) on 5 December 2001@03:07:52.
David Whitehead on 31 December 2013@04:23:28.
David Whitehead on 21 December 2014@11:23:12.
David Whitehead (expanded some refs) on 15 January 2015@09:31:15.

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