Κρωβύλος
top-knot
Translated by William Hutton3 Jul 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] plait of hair that ends in a point. This [sc. krwbu/los ] is the term that was used in the case of men, but ko/rumbos ['pinnacle'] in the case of women1 and skorpi/os ['scorpion'] in the case of children. Also Thucydides [writes]: "tying up [their hair] in top-knots."2
Orkrwbu/lon , the thing wound around the head among Athenians.3
Or
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κρωβύλος· πλέγμα τριχῶν εἰς ὀξὺ λῆγον. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ τοῦτο ἐπ' ἀνδρῶν, κόρυμβος δὲ ἐπὶ γυναικῶν, σκορπίος δὲ ἐπὶ παίδων. καὶ Θουκυδίδης· κρωβύλους ἀναδούμενοι. ἢ κρωβύλον, παρ' Ἀθηναίοις τὸ πρὸς κεφαλῆς προσείλημα.
Betacode
*krwbu/los: ple/gma trixw=n ei)s o)cu\ lh=gon. e)kalei=to de\ tou=to e)p' a)ndrw=n, ko/rumbos de\ e)pi\ gunaikw=n, skorpi/os de\ e)pi\ pai/dwn. kai\ *qoukudi/dhs: krwbu/lous a)nadou/menoi. h)\ krwbu/lon, par' *)aqhnai/ois to\ pro\s kefalh=s prosei/lhma.
Notes (3)
- 1For this term see kappa 2124, Hesychius kappa4266. ↩
- 2= Photius, Lexicon kappa1123 Theodoridis (= Aelius Dionysius kappa40 Erbse), ultimately deriving from commentary to Thucydides 1.6.3 (web address 1); cf. scholia ad loc., and to Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.13, Clement of Alexandria 220.12. See also kappa 2488 (q.v. for further references and links), epsilon 1257, tau 377. ↩
- 3For this sentence, absent from ms V, cf. scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 10, Etymologicum Magnum 310.53, epsilon 86, phi 28, nu 369. Here the lexicographer presents the accusative form of the headword, though it is unclear from the context whether he is aware of that or conceives of the form as a neuter variant in the nominative. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- ε86Ἐγκεκορδυλημένοςbundled up[Meaning] swaddled up, covered up and wound up so as not even to present the shape of a human, but to appear as a heap of coverings. For kordu/lh is used idiomatically for a prominent swelling on the head, rising to a…
- ε1257Ἐνέρσει κρώβυλον ἀναδούμενοιtying up their hair in a knot with a fastenerThat is, with a binding or a braid. A krw/bulos is a kind of waving of the hair, from both sides ending in a point.
- κ2488Κρωβύλοςtop-knot[Meaning] the hairstyle of children. Also the hairdo which those who wore the golden cicada used to criticize, a band, an adornment, the woven adornment of the hair. In the Epigrams: "of the same age are top-knot and…
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