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These are additional short fragments of Phrynichus, a poet of Athenian Old Comedy and a contemporary and rival of Aristophanes in the later fifth century BC. His plays are lost and survive only in quotations by later writers. The fragments on this page, mostly single lines or words cited by lexicographers, include a prayer for the city, an order to a woman to dress like a slave and sweep the house, and rare words such as ἀναπηροβίων and ἀμυκλᾷδες.
Brief as they are, these quotations were preserved because ancient scholars found their vocabulary unusual, and they record rare Attic words and usages. They supplement the main collection of Phrynichus' fragments and add to our knowledge of the language of Old Comedy.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions. 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).