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Epilycus was a comic poet of Old Comedy, probably active in the late fifth or early fourth century BC, of whom very little is known. Only one play title, Koraliskos, is attested, and just a few lines and single words survive, quoted by Athenaeus and the lexicographers. The longest fragment, in Laconian Doric, describes the kopis feast at Amyclae near Sparta, with its barley cakes, loaves and sweet broth.
Slight as they are, the fragments offer glimpses of food and festival. The Amyclae passage is an important witness to the Spartan kopis, a public meal held at festivals, and the glosses preserve rare words for unguents, fruit, wine and household things.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: Kock CAF I p. 803). 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).