Ματιολοιχός
small-licker
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Translation
[Meaning] one who is knavish about small things, and a glutton. For mátion (as is better accented) [is] something small.1
Or someone who eats little, since mation is what they call a minimum. Or someone making decisions in vain [mataia], and waiting in ambush [lochôn], or a cheat in measuring wheat; for a mation [is] a kind of measure.2 And [matioloichos] should be read with the accent on the ultima, as Herodian says.3
Or someone who eats little, since mation is what they call a minimum. Or someone making decisions in vain [mataia], and waiting in ambush [lochôn], or a cheat in measuring wheat; for a mation [is] a kind of measure.2 And [matioloichos] should be read with the accent on the ultima, as Herodian says.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ματιολοιχός· ὁ περὶ τὰ μικρὰ πανοῦργος, καὶ λίχνος. μάτιον γὰρ ὡς βέλτιον τῷ τόνῳ, τὸ μικρόν. ἢ ὁ μικροφάγος, ἐπεὶ μάτιον τὸ ἐλάχιστόν φασιν. ἢ ὁ μάταια βουλευόμενος, καὶ λοχῶν, ἢ ὁ κρουσιμέτρης· μάτιον γὰρ εἶδος μέτρου. ὀξυτόνως δὲ ἀναγνωστέον, ὥς φησιν Ἡρωδιανός.
Betacode
*matioloixo/s: o( peri\ ta\ mikra\ panou=rgos, kai\ li/xnos. ma/tion ga\r w(s be/ltion tw=| to/nw|, to\ mikro/n. h)\ o( mikrofa/gos, e)pei\ ma/tion to\ e)la/xisto/n fasin. h)\ o( ma/taia bouleuo/menos, kai\ loxw=n, h)\ o( krousime/trhs: ma/tion ga\r ei)=dos me/trou. o)cuto/nws de\ a)nagnwste/on, w(/s fhsin *(hrwdiano/s.
Notes (3)
- The headword occurs in Aristophanes, Clouds 451; the commentaries have settled on senses like "greedy", but are clearly guesswork.
See also mu 285. - 1Likewise, so far, in Photius (mu146 Theodoridis). ↩
- 2From the scholia to the Aristophanes passage (see above). The
ma/tion (LSJ s.v.) is an Egyptian measure, so the latter etymology is anachronistic. The former etymology is guesswork, and distorts the word intomataioloxo/s . ↩ - 3Herodian, De Prosodia Catholica p. 231 Lentz,
peri\ o)rqografi/as p. 548 Lentz. ↩
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- tweaking — David Whitehead
- x-ref; more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, keyword, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Nick Nicholas