Κέντρων
rogue
Translated by Nick Nicholas31 Oct 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
That is, [someone] harsh and horrid. Insofar as we call charioteers goad-strikers, those striking horses with goads.1 Or: patchwork, something stitched together from many things.2 Because they call such things kentrônes when they are stitched together for beasts of burden. In the same way [they call] words collected from various people and constituting a single goal, such as the Homeric Centos.3 But others understand this [to mean] an abuser, as in "goad-struck". Or kentrôn: a thief; because when thieves are tortured, goads are also applied.4
kentra are also the spurs of horses.5
"[He] driving the horse across and taking hold of the spurs, to go by in haste."6
kentra are also the spurs of horses.5
"[He] driving the horse across and taking hold of the spurs, to go by in haste."6
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κέντρων· τουτέστι χαλεπὸς καὶ φρικτός. καθὸ καὶ τοὺς ἡνιόχους κεντροτύπους καλοῦμεν, τοὺς τοῖς κέντροις τοὺς ἵππους τύπτοντας. ἢ κέντρων, ὁ ἐκ πολλῶν συνερραμμένος. ἐπεὶ τοιαῦτα τοῖς ὑποζυγίοις συρράπτοντες καλοῦσι κέντρωνας· ὡσαύτως καὶ λόγους ἐκ διαφόρων συνειλεγμένους καὶ ἕνα σκοπὸν ἀπαρτίζοντας, οἷά εἰσι τὰ Ὁμηρόκεντρα. οἱ δὲ τὸν λοίδορον ἀκούουσιν, οἷον κεντροτύπος. ἢ κέντρων, ὁ κλέπτης· διὰ τὸ βασανιζομένοις τοῖς κλέπταις καὶ κέντρα προσφέρεσθαι. Κέντρα καὶ τὰ τῶν ἵππων πλῆκτρα. διελάσας τὸν ἵππον καὶ τὰ κέντρα προσβαλὼν παρεῖναι διὰ ταχέων.
Betacode
*ke/ntrwn: toute/sti xalepo\s kai\ frikto/s. kaqo\ kai\ tou\s h(nio/xous kentrotu/pous kalou=men, tou\s toi=s ke/ntrois tou\s i(/ppous tu/ptontas. h)\ ke/ntrwn, o( e)k pollw=n sunerramme/nos. e)pei\ toiau=ta toi=s u(pozugi/ois surra/ptontes kalou=si ke/ntrwnas: w(sau/tws kai\ lo/gous e)k diafo/rwn suneilegme/nous kai\ e(/na skopo\n a)parti/zontas, oi(=a/ ei)si ta\ *(omhro/kentra. oi( de\ to\n loi/doron a)kou/ousin, oi(=on kentrotu/pos. h)\ ke/ntrwn, o( kle/pths: dia\ to\ basanizome/nois toi=s kle/ptais kai\ ke/ntra prosfe/resqai. *ke/ntra kai\ ta\ tw=n i(/ppwn plh=ktra. diela/sas to\n i(/ppon kai\ ta\ ke/ntra prosbalw\n parei=nai dia\ taxe/wn.
Notes (6)
- The bulk of this entry parallels the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 450; see further below
- 1For "goad-strikers", see kappa 1342. The word
ke/ntrwn (LSJ s.v. I) means "rogue" as "someone tortured (deservingly) with a goad"; it appears in Aristophanes, Clouds 450. The form "goad-strikers" is introduced to explain the derivation ofke/ntrwn . The comment is taken from the scholia to Clouds loc.cit. (and repeated in kappa 1342). ↩ - 2LSJ s.v. II. This is presumably derived from the sense of
kente/w as "stitch with a needle" rather than "prick". LSJ cites it from e.g. the Hellenistic artillery writer Biton (55.4 Wescher: dative plural). ↩ - 3Obvious extension of LSJ s.v. II; kappa 1337 has the Latin equivalent
kentw/n , cento. On the Homeric Cento of the Empress Augusta, see web address 1 and web address 2. ↩ - 4The Suda returns to LSJ s.v. I, making the derivation of the word explicit. ↩
- 5As well as goads for torture; repeated from kappa 1338. ↩
- 6An approximation of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 20.3.3. See Favuzzi [cited under alpha 1990] 57-58. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 lib.umich.edu
- Web address 2 bmcr.brynmawr.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 1 Aug 2019
- coding, links — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- modified and expanded n.6; more keywords — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nick Nicholas