Νάννιον
Nannion
Translated by David Whitehead10 Dec 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Apollodorus in the [treatise] On the Courtesans says that this courtesan is referred to as Goat because of her having eaten up Thallos the shopkeeper;1 for goats love a shoot. She is also mentioned in comedy. Antiphanes the Younger in the [treatise] On the Courtesans says that Nannion is nicknamed Stageset because she seems to be more beautiful on the outside.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νάννιον· Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τῷ Περὶ τῶν ἑταιρῶν Αἶγα λέγεσθαι φησὶ ταύτην τὴν ἑταίραν διὰ τὸ Θαλλὸν τὸν κάπηλον καταφαγεῖν· χαίρουσι γὰρ αἱ αἶγες τῷ θαλλῷ. ἔστι δὲ αὐτῆς μνήμη καὶ ἐν τῇ κωμῳδίᾳ. Ἀντιφάνης δὲ ὁ νεώτερος ἐν τῷ Περὶ τῶν ἑταιρῶν τὴν Νάννιον φησὶ Προσκήνιον ἐπονομάζεσθαι διὰ τὸ ἔξωθεν δοκεῖν εὐμορφωτέραν εἶναι.
Betacode
*na/nnion: *)apollo/dwros e)n tw=| *peri\ tw=n e(tairw=n *ai)=ga le/gesqai fhsi\ tau/thn th\n e(tai/ran dia\ to\ *qallo\n to\n ka/phlon katafagei=n: xai/rousi ga\r ai( ai)=ges tw=| qallw=|. e)/sti de\ au)th=s mnh/mh kai\ e)n th=| kwmw|di/a|. *)antifa/nhs de\ o( new/teros e)n tw=| *peri\ tw=n e(tairw=n th\n *na/nnion fhsi\ *proskh/nion e)ponoma/zesqai dia\ to\ e)/cwqen dokei=n eu)morfwte/ran ei)=nai.
Notes (2)
- An abridgement of Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., commenting on the appearance of this name in Hyperides fr. 141 Jensen.
- 1FGrH 244 F211a. Thallos means shoot or sprout (as the entry goes on to imply), which a real goat might well eat; but "eaten up" here stands for monetarily exploited (cf. the paraphrase in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.587A [13.51 Kaibel]). ↩
- 2FGrH 349 F2b. ↩
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- cosmetics, added note and keywords, set status — William Hutton
- Translated — David Whitehead