Ἀβελτεροκόκκυξ
silly cuckoo
Translated by Anne Mahoney23 Aug 1998Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
The vacuous and silly man.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀβελτεροκόκκυξ· ὁ κενὸς καὶ ἀβέλτερος.
Betacode
*)abelteroko/kkuc: o( keno\s kai\ a)be/lteros.
Notes (1)
- cf. generally alpha 32, alpha 33.
- 1Plato Comicus fr. 64 Kock = 65 K.-A. (Phrynichus 48.11). For "cuckoo" alone, in this sense, see e.g. Aristophanes, Acharnians 598 (web address 1 below), and Hesychius s.v.
ko/kkuges . ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- α32Ἀβέλτεροςthoughtless[Meaning] mindless, stupid. For the intelligent man [is] be/lteros ["thoughtful, superior"]. "No, by Zeus, not the greedy and thoughtless fellow, but the mindless and conceitedly slow-witted." Menander in Perinthia…
- α33Ἀβελτερώτατοιmost thoughtless, very thoughtlessAristophanes [writes]: "before this most/very thoughtless men used to sit gaping -- Dolts, Half-wits".
- α71Ἀβέλτερος νοῦςfoolish mind"[A foolish mind,] empty, naive, young."
- κ1920ΚόκκυξcuckooA kind of bird; the one we call kou=kkos.
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