Ὁλκὸς ἄνθρωπος
attractive fellow, attractive man
Translated by Ronald Allen17 Dec 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] one who is engaging and seductive.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὁλκὸς ἄνθρωπος· ὁ ἑλκυστικὸς καὶ ἐπαγωγός.
Betacode
*(olko\s a)/nqrwpos: o( e(lkustiko\s kai\ e)pagwgo/s.
Notes
- The headword phrase, in the nominative singular, joins the commonplace noun
a)/nqrwpos with the adjectiveo(lkos ; cf. omicron 178, omicron 179, and see generally LSJ s.v. (For the identical noun, see omicron 175, omicron 176, omicron 180.)
The phrase is attested only in lexicography; see already Photius omicron228 Theodoridis, citing the comparable entry in the Lexica Segueriana (Anonymus Antiatticista 111.1) but omitting the same one in Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 997a24. Both Timaeus and the A.A. add 'Plato in [book] 5 of Republic'. This presumably means Republic 521D (web address 1), where however the context is not attractive human being, butma/qhma yuxh=s o(lko/n , a discipline which attracts the soul. Neither that passage nor further instances ofo(lko/n in 524E and 527B solve the mystery of this lemma.
References
I. Bekker, ed., Anecdota Graeca, vol. I, Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1965
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from5 entries
- ο175Ὁλκόνhauling-engine[Meaning] a strong cord/skein, or extracting[-device], or strap, or track. "He cut the hauling-engine of [ = for] the water."
- ο176Ὁλκόςfurrow[Meaning] a road, or a drawing of a stream, or a tail. Properly, a holkos [is] the trail of serpents, but also, by a figurative use of language, the length of the keel: for in serpentine fashion they used to extend [it]…
- ο178Ὁλκοῖςattractive, drawing to themselves[Meaning by/for/to/with those men or things] able to lead and to drag after themselves.
- ο179Ὁλκούςattractive, drawing to themselves[Meaning] those [women?] dragging after themselves.
- ο180Ὁλκούςcapstans, hauling-engines, windlasses[Meaning] anchorages/roadsteads.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 19 May 2016
- codings — David Whitehead
- reworked notes — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ronald Allen