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Additional Fragments is a supplementary set of twenty-eight short fragments of Plato, the Athenian comic poet of the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC, not to be confused with the philosopher. His plays are lost and survive only in quotations, and most of these pieces are single words or phrases cited by lexicographers and grammarians. They include a lover pleading with his "sweetest little Aphrodite" and a speaker naming Athens with its golden headbands as his homeland.
Scraps like these matter chiefly for the language of Old Comedy, since grammarians quoted comic poets to illustrate rare or colourful Attic words such as coined compounds and diminutives. They supplement the main collection of Plato's fragments and show how much of a prolific comic poet's work now survives only as a vocabulary list. The edition from which this set derives has not been securely identified.
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).