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Theophrastus · Fragments §113.1

The Trial of Love of Leucocomas and Euxynthetus

Passage 118 of 196 · Greek

Summary

This passage describes a trial of love between Leucocomas and Euxynthetus from Leben, recorded in Theophrastus' work "On Love," which involved bringing a dog from Praesus.

§113.1Fr. 113 Ἐκ Λεβῆνος ἦν Λευκοκόμας τε καὶ ὁ ἐραστὴς αὐτοῦ Εὐξύνθετος, οὓς ἱστορεῖ Θ. ἐν τῷ περὶ ἔρωτος λόγῳ· εἶναι δὲ τῶν ἄθλων ὧν ὁ Λευκοκόμας τῷ Εὐξυνθέτῳ προσέταξεν ἕνα, φησὶ, τοῦτον, τὸν ἐν Πραίσῳ κύνα ἀναγαγεῖν αὐτῶ.
Fr. 113 Leucocomas and his lover Euxynthetus were from Leben, whom Theophrastus records in his treatise "On Love"; and he says that one of the tasks which Leucocomas imposed upon Euxynthetus was this: to bring back to him the dog in Praesus.
Ὅμοροι δʼ εἰσὶν αὐτοῖς οἱ Πραίσιοι.
Now the Praesians are neighbors to them.

Notes

  1. §113.1εἶναι — An infinitive in indirect speech, depending on the parenthetical φησὶ (he says, i.e., Theophrastus). The grammatical subject of the clause is the demonstrative pronoun τοῦτον, which stands in apposition to the following infinitive phrase τὸν ... ἀναγαγεῖν.
  2. §113.1ὧν — Case attraction of the relative pronoun. While it should grammatically be in the accusative (ἃ) as the direct object of the transitive verb προσέταξεν, it has been attracted into the genitive case of its antecedent, τῶν ἄθλων.
  3. §113.1αὐτοῖς — Dative pronoun referring in context to the inhabitants of Leben (the hometown of the two protagonists) or the two protagonists themselves.

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Theophrastus, Fragments §113.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg010x09.humanitext-grc1:113.1

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