Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Nickname for a Politician
Eupolis, fragment 135 (from a scholium to Aristophanes, Birds 822; tr. Ian C. Storey):
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He [Theogenes] was called "Smoke," because he promised much but never delivered—Eupolis in Demes.
ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ Καπνὸς, ὅτι πολλὰ ὑπισχνούμενος οὐδὲν ἐτέλει. Εὔπολις ἐν Δήμοις.
