Ναυσικράτης

Nausicrates, Nausikrates

Translated by David Whitehead8 Sep 2008Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 45 words
A comic [dramatist]. Amongst his plays is Shipowners, [and] Persian Woman.1
'Ship-master' [naukrates], however, is what someone liked to say in reference to a ship-securer [anchor]; as being the same thing, i.e. to secure a ship, hence ship-securer, and to control a ship, hence ship-master.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ναυσικράτης, κωμικός. τῶν δραμάτων αὐτοῦ ἐστι Ναύκληροι, Περσίς. Ναυκράτην μέντοι εἰπεῖν ἐφίλησέ τις ἐπὶ ἐχενηΐδος φάναι· ὡς ταυτὸν ὂν ἔχειν, ἤγουν ἐπέχειν νῆα, ὅθεν ἡ ἐχενηΐς, καὶ ναῦν κρατεῖν, ὅθεν ὁ ναυκράτης.

Betacode
*nausikra/ths, kwmiko/s. tw=n drama/twn au)tou= e)sti *nau/klhroi, *persi/s. *naukra/thn me/ntoi ei)pei=n e)fi/lhse/ tis e)pi\ e)xenhi/+dos fa/nai: w(s tauto\n o)\n e)/xein, h)/goun e)pe/xein nh=a, o(/qen h( e)xenhi/+s, kai\ nau=n kratei=n, o(/qen o( naukra/ths.

Notes (2)

  1. 1C4 BCE (Middle Comedy); Kassel-Austin, PCG 7.33-35. For the first of these titles see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.296A (7.47 Kaibel), 7.325E (7.127 Kaibel), 7.330B (7.139 Kaibel); for the second, id. 9.399E-F (9.61 Kaibel). ↩
  2. 2For this material (which has no substantive connection with Nausicrates) see already at epsilon 3990 and epsilon 3991. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 19 May 2016
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. tweaked tr — David Whitehead
  5. typo, status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

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