Γραμματοκύφων
record-porer, penpusher
Translated by David Whitehead9 Aug 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Meaning "you low-grade clerk;" for strictly speaking a ku/fwn is the stocks.1 Amongst the rude names that Demosthenes calls Aeschines is record-porer; he claims that he is the son of a man named Tromes, an elementary schoolmaster.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Γραμματοκύφων· ἀντὶ τοῦ ταπεινὲ γραμματεῦ· κυρίως γὰρ κύφων τὸ ξύλον καλεῖται. Δημοσθένης καὶ ἄλλα σκώπτει τὸν Αἰσχίνην καὶ γραμματοκύφωνα, ὃν καὶ υἱὸν εἶναί φησιν ὄνομα μὲν Τρόμητος, διδασκάλου δὲ τῶν πρώτων γραμμάτων.