Anonymous: Tragica Adespota (Snell Supplement)

This is the supplement of anonymous tragic fragments that Bruno Snell added in 1964 to the reprint of August Nauck's Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. It contains lines from unnamed Greek tragedies quoted by ancient writers that had been identified since Nauck's edition, numbered to fit into his sequence, often with letters such as 14a. The pieces are short, often a single line or phrase.

Snell's supplement marks the stage between Nauck's nineteenth-century collection and the modern Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Although slight, it preserves additional remnants of the large body of Greek tragedy that is otherwise lost, and it shows how new finds steadily enlarged our knowledge of the genre.