Παλεός
addled
Translated by William Hutton13 Mar 2011Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a scoffer. It is also applied to a mindless person.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παλεός· ὁ σκώπτης. τίθεται καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἄφρονος.
Betacode
*paleo/s: o( skw/pths. ti/qetai kai\ e)pi\ tou= a)/fronos.
Notes (1)
- The headword is attested only in lexicography, grammars and scholia (e.g. Herodian 3.1.113). A scholium to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 988 (web address 1), comments on a version of the text that contains the headword, although the OCT reads
palaio/r , a Laconian variant forpalaio/s ('ancient'). The scholiast explains the headword as being a variant ofa)leo/s (Doric/Laconian forh)leo/s ), defined in LSJ as "distraught, crazed" (web address 2) but understood by the scholiast as "silly, useless". Henderson (below), among others, printsa)leo/s . - 1Almost = Etymologicum Gudianum s.v.
palaio/s , where the current headword is accented differently (pa/leos ) and has the order of the glosses reversed. See also Theognostus, Canones 270. ↩
References
J. Henderson (ed.), Aristophanes: Lysistrata (OUP 1987)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 11 Aug 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- tweaked link, expanded note, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton