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Machon Fr.XVI. 258-61 and 285-94

Machon Fr.XVI. 258-61 and 285-94 MACHON FR.XVI. 258-61 AND 285-94 BY H. AKBAR KHAN In the fragments of Machon, edited by A. S. F. Gow (Cambridge 1965), we read (Frag. XVI, vv. 258-61): It has not passed unnoticed that Gnathaena exploits, to the dis- credit of the dramatist Diphilus, the ambivalence of the word §uxp6v, which is applicable equally to the cold wine or the bowl in which it is, and, as a term of literary criticism, to writing. The joke then resembles that of Catullus Caym. 44, where the poet jocularly says that it was the venomous invective and the bombast (frig-us) of Sestius' speech which brought on a cough with its freezing blasts. Immediately following this, there is an expanded version of the same joke. In this version it is not the eXyyÛov of Gnathaena, but her ?,O'Cxxoq, which is cold (v. 282 ) . After being told that her 'bowl' is cold, she twits the dramatist, whose mistress she was. It is a rather sharp joke, however, and it is presumably this which is one of the reasons why Gow finds it necessary to give a brief examination of the evidence on the prologues of Diphilus to assess whether they fell http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Machon Fr.XVI. 258-61 and 285-94

Akbar Khan, H.
Mnemosyne , Volume 20 (3): 6 – Jan 1, 1967
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MACHON FR.XVI. 258-61 AND 285-94 BY H. AKBAR KHAN In the fragments of Machon, edited by A. S. F. Gow (Cambridge 1965), we read (Frag. XVI, vv. 258-61): It has not passed unnoticed that Gnathaena exploits, to the dis- credit of the dramatist Diphilus, the ambivalence of the word §uxp6v, which is applicable equally to the cold wine or the bowl in which it is, and, as a term of literary criticism, to writing. The joke then resembles that of Catullus Caym. 44, where the poet jocularly says that it was the venomous invective and the bombast (frig-us) of Sestius' speech which brought on a cough with its freezing blasts. Immediately following this, there is an expanded version of the same joke. In this version it is not the eXyyÛov of Gnathaena, but her ?,O'Cxxoq, which is cold (v. 282 ) . After being told that her 'bowl' is cold, she twits the dramatist, whose mistress she was. It is a rather sharp joke, however, and it is presumably this which is one of the reasons why Gow finds it necessary to give a brief examination of the evidence on the prologues of Diphilus to assess whether they fell

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Published: Jan 1, 1967

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