Ἐγκεκορδυλημένος

[Meaning] swaddled up, covered up and wound up so as not even to present the shape of a human, but to appear as a heap of coverings. For kordu/lh is used idiomatically for a prominent swelling on the head, rising to a height and a lump on account of a blow; what we call a ko/ndulos ["knob"]. But Kreon in [book] 1 of his Rhetorica¹ says that a kordu/lh is what a wrap for the head is called among Cyprians, that which is called krw/bulos among Athenians and nida/rion among Persians. [The fact] that in the present instance in Aristophanes 'bundled up' [is used] in in the sense of bound up and having covered himself [is] clear from what follows: "but, if it's all right with you, let's snore covered up."² For it was cold, as it seems, and they were covered up. For this reason also he said that his son was covered with 5 coverlets.³