Νεοκλείδου κλεπτίστερος
more thieving than Neokleides; more thieving than Neoclides
Translated by David Whitehead3 Oct 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
This man is the butt of comedy, because he was an orator and blind and a blackmailer and a thief. Aristophanes [writes]: "Neokleides, who, though blind, outdoes in stealing those who can see".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νεοκλείδου κλεπτίστερος· οὗτος κεκωμῴδηται, ὡς ῥήτωρ ἦν καὶ τυφλὸς καὶ συκοφάντης καὶ κλέπτης. Ἀριστοφάνης· Νεοκλείδης, ὅς ἐστι μὲν τυφλός, κλέπτων δὲ τοὺς βλέποντας ὑπερηκόντισε.
Betacode
*neoklei/dou klepti/steros: ou(=tos kekwmw/|dhtai, w(s r(h/twr h)=n kai\ tuflo\s kai\ sukofa/nths kai\ kle/pths. *)aristofa/nhs: *neoklei/dhs, o(/s e)sti me\n tuflo/s, kle/ptwn de\ tou\s ble/pontas u(perhko/ntise.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 665-6 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. The source of the headword phrase itself -- proverbial in Apostolius 11.99 -- is unidentifiable. The comparative
klepti/steros occurs only in lexica and grammarians, but Aristophanes uses (and perhaps coined) the superlativeklepti/statos at Plutus 27.
For Neokleides and his affliction cf. Ecclesiazusae 254 and 398ff; R. Garland, The Eye of the Beholder: deformity and disability in the Graeco-Roman World (London 1995) 32.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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