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Dioxippus was a poet of Athenian New Comedy, of whom little is known beyond a few play titles. This page presents the five short fragments of his plays that survive, quoted mainly by Athenaeus in the Deipnosophists. They deal with food and drink: a man's craving for tripe and other offal, conversations overheard, and requests for fashionable drinking cups from Thericles' workshop and from Rhodes.
The fragments are brief, but they reflect New Comedy's everyday settings and its humorous interest in appetite, luxury and the objects of daily life. Athenaeus quoted them for their vocabulary of food and tableware, and they preserve the names of items such as the Thericlean cups that many other ancient writers also mention.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: Kock CAF II pp. 358–359; PCG V). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).