Κόροιβος
Koroibos, Coroebus
Translated by David Whitehead20 Nov 2006Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
A proper name.
And a certain fool, [for] measuring the waves.1
Callimachus [writes]: "the eighth [was] like some Koroibos".2
Boutalion and Koroibos and Melitides had been slandered for foolishness. Aristophanes [sc. shows this].3
And a certain fool, [for] measuring the waves.1
Callimachus [writes]: "the eighth [was] like some Koroibos".2
Boutalion and Koroibos and Melitides had been slandered for foolishness. Aristophanes [sc. shows this].3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κόροιβος· ὄνομα κύριον. καὶ μωρός τις, μετρῶν τὰ κύματα. Καλλίμαχος· τὸν ὄγδοον ὥς τι Κόροιβον. ὅτι Βουταλίων καὶ Κόροιβος καὶ Μελιτίδης ἐπὶ μωρίᾳ διεβέβληντο. Ἀριστοφάνης.
Betacode
*ko/roibos: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ mwro/s tis, metrw=n ta\ ku/mata. *kalli/maxos: to\n o)/gdoon w(/s ti *ko/roibon. o(/ti *boutali/wn kai\ *ko/roibos kai\ *meliti/dhs e)pi\ mwri/a| diebe/blhnto. *)aristofa/nhs.
Notes (3)
- cf. generally Hesychius kappa3649; Photius, Lexicon kappa980 Theodoridis.
- 1cf. Apostolius 10.3 (with 'counting'). ↩
- 2Callimachus, Fragmenta incertae sedis 587. ↩
- 3From beta 468. ↩
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- β468ΒουταλίωνBoutalion[Boutalion] and Koroibos and Melitides were calumniated for stupidity. Aristophanes [writes]: "before this the stupidest men used to sit gaping -- dolts, half-wits."
- μ1344Μωροὶfools[Fools] and stupid and gawping. Mammakythos: Melitides, Boutalion, Koroibos.
- ο806Οὐδὲν πρὸς τὸν Διόνυσονnothing to do with Dionysos; nothing to do with DionysusCertain people exclaimed this after Epigenes of Sicyon had composed a tragedy in honour of Dionysus; hence the saying. But the following [is] better. Formerly, when writing in honour of Dionysus they used to compete…
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- Translated — David Whitehead