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κ2221bell-carrying
κ2222fleeces
κ2223kôen
κ2224goby, gudgeon
κ2225kothon; Kothon
κ2226kothons
κ2227Kothonides, Cothonides
κ2228to make drunken
κ2229Kokalos, Cocalus

Suda/Κ kappa/κ2225

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Κώθων

kothon; Kothon

Translated by D. Graham J. Shipley20 Jan 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

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5 notes · 38 words

Translation

A kind of Laconian drinking-vessel with one handle.¹ It also appears to be a military item.²
Also a name of Leosthenes' father.³
Appian [writes]:⁴ "and he was carrying chopped-up torch-wood and sulphur -- ashy fire⁵ -- in kothones".

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κώθων· εἶδος ποτηρίου Λακωνικοῦ μονώτου. δοκεῖ δὲ καὶ στρατιωτικὸν εἶναι. καὶ ὄνομα τοῦ Λεωσθένους πατρός. Ἀππιανός· ἔφερε δὲ δᾷδα συγκεκομμένην καὶ θεῖον [τεφρῶδες πῦρ] ἐν κώθωσι.

Betacode

*kw/qwn: ei)=dos pothri/ou *lakwnikou= monw/tou. dokei= de\ kai\ stratiwtiko\n ei)=nai. kai\ o)/noma tou= *lewsqe/nous patro/s. *)appiano/s: e)/fere de\ da=|da sugkekomme/nhn kai\ qei=on [tefrw=des pu=r] e)n kw/qwsi.

Notes (5)

See also kappa 2226, and generally Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.483B-484C [11.66-67 Kaibel].
1From the scholia to Aristophanes, Peace 1094, where the headword occurs. ↩
2cf. Critias in Athenaeus 483B (above, and Plutarch, Lycurgus 9): "a drinking vessel most suitable for campaigning and most easily carried in a knapsack. The reason why it is a military item is that (soldiers) must often drink water that is not pure. So first the drink was not easy to see, and secondly, since the kothon has inward-curving edges, it retains the impurity within it". ↩
3Presumably, rather, a nickname -- for the father of the celebrated Athenian general of 324/3 and 323/2 BCE. He too was called Leosthenes, and had been a general a generation earlier (362/1 or 361/0): see R. Develin, Athenian Officials 684-321 BC (Cambridge 1988) 268. (No Spartans of this name are attested.) See perhaps kappa 2227 for Leosthenes himself as 'Kothon's son'. ↩
4Appian, Libyca 593 Viereck/Roos/Gabba, referring to the Roman siege of Carthage. The original actually says that the Romans heaped up earthen ramparts before the gates and slung these inflammable subjects onto them, together with pitch, thus setting fire to several towers. ↩
5After 'sulphur' the words 'ashy fire' are bracketed by Adler as being an interpolated gloss; they are not in the text of Appian.

Linked from3 entries

κ2226Κώθωνεςkothons[They are] kinds of drinking-vessels, which soldiers used to take. Made of earthenware; they call it ‘washing basket’.. Otherwise of Laconian and military [type]. Since sailors used to take measured-out water, they used…
κ2227ΚωθωνίδηςKothonides, CothonidesA proper name.
κ2228Κωθωνίσαιto make drunken[Meaning] to make inebriated. "Being in love and drinking heavily from daytime on". [Nore] that Homer assigns Pramnian [wine] to the man with a bleeding wound, but 'the sweet draught' to the heavy drinker.

Neighbouring entries

κ2223Κῶενkôen κ2224Κῶθοςgoby, gudgeon κ2225Κώθωνkothon; Kothon κ2226Κώθωνεςkothons κ2227ΚωθωνίδηςKothonides, Cothonides

Revision history6 revisions · last 16 Jan 2015

16 Jan 2015expanded a ref — David Whitehead
15 Jan 2015coding — Catharine Roth
15 Mar 2013more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
17 Nov 2006augmented n.3 — David Whitehead
15 Jul 2002Revised — David Whitehead
20 Jan 2002augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
20 Jan 2002Translated — D. Graham J. Shipley

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Κώθων (Adler number kappa 2225), trans. D. Graham J. Shipley, 20 Jan 2002. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/2225

Translation by D. Graham J. Shipley for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗