Φρυνώνδας
Phrynondas
Translated by David Whitehead22 Nov 2001Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[sc. A name applied to] those notorious for villainy. He was a foreigner who lived in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes in Amphiareus [says]: "o wretch and Phrynondas and villain you".1 From him they call villains Phrynondas.
This Phrynondas [was] evil and wicked, someone who for money easily put together scheming plans for bad ends, as Eudemus says.2
And elsewhere: "but I think that neither Phrynondas nor Eurybatos nor any other of the villains of old ever behaved as such a trickster and cheat [as Demosthenes]".3
This Phrynondas [was] evil and wicked, someone who for money easily put together scheming plans for bad ends, as Eudemus says.2
And elsewhere: "but I think that neither Phrynondas nor Eurybatos nor any other of the villains of old ever behaved as such a trickster and cheat [as Demosthenes]".3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φρυνώνδας· τῶν ἐπὶ πονηρίᾳ διαβεβοημένων. ὃς ξένος ὢν κατὰ τὰ Πελοποννησιακὰ διέτριβεν Ἀθήνησιν. Ἀριστοφάνης Ἀμφιάρεῳ· ὦ μιαρὲ καὶ Φρυνώνδα καὶ πονηρὲ σύ. ἐκ τούτου τοὺς πονηροὺς Φρυνώνδας καλοῦσι. κακοήθης ὁ Φρυνώνδας οὗτος καὶ πανοῦργος, μισθοῦ τινας μηχανὰς πραγμάτων ἐπὶ κακοῖς ῥᾳδίως συντιθείς, ὥς φησιν Εὔδημος. καὶ αὖθις· ἀλλ' οἶμαι οὔτε Φρυνώνδας οὔτ' Εὐρύβατος οὐδ' ἄλλος πώποτε τῶν πάλαι πονηρῶν, τοιοῦτος μάγος καὶ γόης.
Betacode
*frunw/ndas: tw=n e)pi\ ponhri/a| diabebohme/nwn. o(\s ce/nos w)\n kata\ ta\ *peloponnhsiaka\ die/triben *)aqh/nhsin. *)aristofa/nhs *)amfia/rew|: w)= miare\ kai\ *frunw/nda kai\ ponhre\ su/. e)k tou/tou tou\s ponhrou\s *frunw/ndas kalou=si. kakoh/qhs o( *frunw/ndas ou(=tos kai\ panou=rgos, misqou= tinas mhxana\s pragma/twn e)pi\ kakoi=s r(a|di/ws suntiqei/s, w(/s fhsin *eu)/dhmos. kai\ au)=qis: a)ll' oi)=mai ou)/te *frunw/ndas ou)/t' *eu)ru/batos ou)d' a)/llos pw/pote tw=n pa/lai ponhrw=n, toiou=tos ma/gos kai\ go/hs.
Notes (3)
- For Phrynondas cf. e.g. Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazousai 861; Isocrates 18.57; Harpokration s.v.
- 1Aristophanes fr. 26 Kock (and K.-A.). ↩
- 2Presumably Eudemus of (?)Argos [Myth, Place], author of On Words in the Orators. ↩
- 3Aeschines 3.137, cited from Harpok. On Eurybatos, see epsilon 3715, epsilon 3717, epsilon 3718. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 22 Dec 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added cross-references — Catharine Roth
- added note and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — David Whitehead