Κυκησιτέφρου
of ash-mixing
Translated by William Hutton27 Mar 2008Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] of stirring up the ash. Aristophanes [writes]: "Kleigenes the Small, the most rascally bath-man of all who are masters of ash-mixing, sham-soda dust and Kimolian earth." ["Ash-mixing" means] that which mixes the ash, combining it with soda. And "Kimolian" [refers to] a white earth.1 [Aristophanes] is saying that [Kleigenes] is rascally in the realm of every earth that the bath-men possess: Kimolian, ash and everything else of the sort.