Κευθωνύμου κλέος ἢ αἶσχος
Keuthonymos' fame -- or shame
Translated by David Whitehead25 Sep 2003Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who have a shameful fame; or if someone were to conceal his name;1 or [the name of someone] ill-named.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κευθωνύμου κλέος, ἢ αἶσχος· ἐπὶ τῶν αἴσχιον κλέος ἐχόντων· ἢ ἄν τις ἐπικρύψειε τὸ ὄνομα· ἢ δυσωνύμου.
Betacode
*keuqwnu/mou kle/os, h)\ ai)=sxos: e)pi\ tw=n ai)/sxion kle/os e)xo/ntwn: h)\ a)/n tis e)pikru/yeie to\ o)/noma: h)\ duswnu/mou.
Notes (1)
- Slightly more fully in Zenobius 4.72. The only attested Keuthonymos -- Kythonymos in Zenobius, and cf. Hesychius kappa4448, but apparently lower-case there -- is the father of the herdsman Menoites in the myth of Heracles' Labours, but nothing is known of E. himself; hence the struggle, here, to interpret the proverb.
- 1This attempt at explanation is etymological; cf. generally kappa 1435, kappa 1436, kappa 1438. ↩
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