Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2. 

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Riddle


“And there is the following one by Panarces, according to Clearchus in his treatise On Riddles, that etc.


//'Tis fabled that a man and not a man Saw and saw not a bird and not a bird Upon a tree and no tree, and struck at it And struck not with a stone and not a stone.//


..that is, a eunuch, a bat, a fennel, and a bit of pumice.12


Athenaeus Doctors at Dinner [on riddles]


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“It is like the equivoques at a dinner-party, or the children's riddle about the eunuch who struck at the bat and what it was perched on and what the missile was.” 

Plato Republic 

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“A riddle （recorded） by Clearchus”

Scholiast on Plato Republic


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1 the word translated ‘strike’ can mean both ‘to aim at’ and ‘to hit’; cf. Sch. Arist. 4. 14, Eust. 713. 10, Suid. αἶνος , Trypho Rh. Gr. 8. 736 W, Choerob. Rh. Gr. Spengel 3. 253, Phot. νυκτερίδος αἶνος

2 For mentions of other Elegiac poems or poets of the Athenian Age see Paus. 5. 25. 4 （Hippias）, Diog. L. 2. 104 （Theodorus, cf. Ath. 3. 122 b, 14. 618 e?）, Aeschin. in Tim. 136 （Aeschines）.