92 CHCERILUS, PHRYNICHUS, AND PEATINAS. was still satyric, or tragic in the proper sense of tlie word^ Choeriliis is said to have written 150 pieces 2, but no fragments have come down to us. The disparaging remarks of Hermeas and Proclus do not refer to him, but to his Samian namesake^, and he is mentioned by Alexis^ in such goodly company, that we cannot believe that his poetry was altogether contemptible. One of his plays was called the Alope, and it appears to have been of a strictly mythical character^. Some improvements in theatrical costume are ascribed to him by Suidas and Eudocia^. Phrynichus was the son of Polyphradmon, and a scholar of Thespis. The dates of his birth and death are alike unknown: it seems probable that lie died in Sicily^. He gained a tragic victory in 511 B. c.^ and another in 476, when Themistocles was his choragus^*^: the play which he produced on this occasion was probably the Phoenissa^, and iEschylus is charged ^^ with having made use of this tragedy in the composition of his Persas, which appeared four years after, a charge Avhich ^schylus seems to rebut in the Frogs" of Aristophanes 'I In 494 B.C. Miletus was taken by the Persians, and Phrynichus, unluckily for himself, ^ 7}vlKa fj-eu j8acrtXei)s rj// XoipiXos iu "LaripoLS. Anonym, ap. Plotium de Thetris, V- ^633- 2 The numbers in Suidas are, however, in this instance, not to be depended on, as they are not the same in all the MSS. ^ See Nake's Ckceriliis, p. 92.
- Athen, iv. p. 164 c;
'Ofj<peb% 'hecrriv, '^aio^os, Tpayu}Sia, 'KoipiXos, "Op-rfpos, 'Eirixappos, avyypdp.p.aTa IJavTodavd. ^ Pausan. I. 14, § 3: 'KoipiXijj 5e 'A6T}vaiq} 5pap.a TroirjaavTi 'AXoirrju ^ar elpyjpiua KepKVova ehai Kai TpnrTb€p,ov ddekcpovs, k.t.X. ■■ ^ ovTOS Kara TLvas tocs irpoawirdoLS /cat rfi crKevrj tQv aroKQv eTrexeipvc^v. "^ ^p6vtxo^, lloXvcppddpovo^, t] 'Miuvpov ol S^ XopoKXeovs' 'Kd-qvatos, rpayiKSs, fiaOrjTrjs Q^awLdos. Suidas in ^pvv. The first of the names mentioned here for the father of Phrynichus is the correct one. See Schol. Arist. Av. 750; Pausan. X. 31, 2. The name also appears under the form Phiadmon. Prol. Arisioph. p. xxix. 8 Clinton, F. H. Vol. ii. p. xxxi, note (t). ^ efi'/ca eirl rrjs ^f oXvpiTiddos. Suidas. I*' ^EpLKTjae dc [QepiaroKXrjs] Kai x^pvy^^' rpayubo^s, peydXiju t^St} t6t€ crirovdrjv Kai (piXoTipiav Tou dyQvos 'ix^vros. Kai irlvaKa ttjs vlk7}$ c.i'idr}Ke, Toiavrrjv iiriypa^r]!/ ^XO^Ta'—QepiaTOKXrjS ^pedppios ix^PVy^h i^pvuLX'^^ idldaaKci', 'ASelpauros ripx^v. Plutarch, in Thcmist. c. V. ^1 By Glaucus, in his work on the subjects of the plays of ^schylus: see Arg. ad Persas. ^^ dXX odv iyil) ph is to KaXbv eK tou koXov ■fjveyKOV ai}d tva pr] tov avTov ^pvulx'ji Xeip-Qva MovffQv iepbv 6(p6etr)u hpiiriav. Ran, i'294 — 1296.
