Καρκίνου ποιήματα

Karkinos' poems, Carcinus' poems

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Menander in False Heracles [sc. uses the phrase].¹ Meaning riddling [ones]. For Karkinos, when depicting Orestes [departing?] from Ilion [and] compelled to admit that he had killed his mother, made him reply in riddles.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Καρκίνου ποιήματα· Μένανδρος Ψευδηρακλεῖ. ἀντὶ τοῦ αἰνιγματώδη. ὁ γὰρ Καρκίνος Ὀρέστην ἀπὸ Ἰλίου ἀναγκαζόμενον ὁμολογῆσαι ὅτι ἐμητροκτόνησεν, ἐποίησε δι' αἰνιγμάτων ἀποκρινόμενον.

Betacode

*karki/nou poih/mata: *me/nandros *yeudhraklei=. a)nti\ tou= ai)nigmatw/dh. o( ga\r *karki/nos *)ore/sthn a)po\ *)ili/ou a)nagkazo/menon o(mologh=sai o(/ti e)mhtrokto/nhsen, e)poi/hse di' ai)nigma/twn a)pokrino/menon.

Notes (2)

Also in Photius (Lexicon kappa193 Theodoridis).
For Karkinos see already kappa 396.
1Menander fr. 525 Kock (415 K.-A.). ↩
2Orestes (omicron 537, omicron 538) had no business to be '[departing] from Ilion' (Troy), so emendation is necessary, e.g. 'compelled by Menelaos' (Hemsterhuys). Theodoridis notes other possibilities. ↩

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Translation

Greek original · Adler’s text

Notes (2)

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