Ἀγύρριος
Agyrrhios, Agyrrhius
Translated by Debra Hamel12 Aug 1999Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
A proper name. [The man] who was slandered for weakness, that he actually breaks wind. Aristophanes in Plutus [says this]. And he was also ridiculed for over-boldness.1
Also [sc. attested is] Agyrrhios, an Athenian demagogue of some renown.2
Agyrrhios got away with having the beard of Pronomos.3 The general Agyrrhios was effeminate.4 He commanded in Lemnos,5 and [he was the man] who curtailed the poets' fee.6 But Pronomos was a piper with a great beard.7
Also [sc. attested is] Agyrrhios, an Athenian demagogue of some renown.2
Agyrrhios got away with having the beard of Pronomos.3 The general Agyrrhios was effeminate.4 He commanded in Lemnos,5 and [he was the man] who curtailed the poets' fee.6 But Pronomos was a piper with a great beard.7
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀγύρριος· ὄνομα κύριον. ὃς ἐπὶ μαλακίᾳ διεβέβλητο ὡς καὶ πέρδεσθαι αὐτόν. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ. ἐκωμῳδεῖτο δὲ καὶ εἰς θρασύτητα. καὶ Ἀγύρριος, δημαγωγὸς Ἀθηναίων οὐκ ἀφανής. Ἀγύρριος τὸν Προνόμου πώγων' ἔχων λέληθεν. ὁ Ἀγύρριος στρατηγὸς θηλυδριώδης, ἄρξας ἐν Λήμνῳ, ὃς τὸν μισθὸν τῶν ποιητῶν συνέτεμεν. ὁ δὲ Πρόνομος αὐλητὴς ἦν μέγαν πώγωνα ἔχων.
Betacode
*)agu/rrios: o)/noma ku/rion. o(\s e)pi\ malaki/a| diebe/blhto w(s kai\ pe/rdesqai au)to/n. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|. e)kwmw|dei=to de\ kai\ ei)s qrasu/thta. kai\ *)agu/rrios, dhmagwgo\s *)aqhnai/wn ou)k a)fanh/s. *)agu/rrios to\n *prono/mou pw/gwn' e)/xwn le/lhqen. o( *)agu/rrios strathgo\s qhludriw/dhs, a)/rcas e)n *lh/mnw|, o(\s to\n misqo\n tw=n poihtw=n sune/temen. o( de\ *pro/nomos au)lhth\s h)=n me/gan pw/gwna e)/xwn.
Notes (6)
- [1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 176; cf. pi 1039. Aristophanes in fact writes that Agyrrhios' flatulence, and much else besides, was motivated by Wealth:↩
*)agu/rrios d' ou)xi\ dia\ tou=ton [Wealth]pe/rdetai ;- 2Despite 'also' (which simply stems, here, from the incorporation of Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 24.134), this is the same man, Agyrrhios of Kollytos (LGPN ii s.v. no.1). See generally Develin (1989) Index I no.44; Hansen (1989) p.34; P.J. Rhodes in OCD(4) s.v. (p.45). ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 102-3, with comment from the scholia there; cf. pi 2527. ↩
- 4This adjective for effeminate derives from a word for 'hairdresser' and is also used for a type of kiss, and a type of melody. See kappa 912 (note 1), mu 134. ↩
- 5For his generalship in 389/8 see Develin (1989) p.215. The demagogue Agyrrhios and the general here described are the same man; cf. already n.2. ↩
- 6A measure not otherwise attested (amongst A's documented interest in fees: see the summary in Hansen (1989) p.34). ↩
- 7For the Theban piper Pronomos see Geisau, RE XXIII, 748 (and pi 2527). He is depicted playing the double aulos on the so-called Pronomos krater (Web address 1).
References
Develin, Robert: 1989: Athenian Officials 684-321 BC. Cambridge.
Hansen, Mogens Herman. 1989: "Rhetores and Strategoi in Fourth-Century Athens." In The Athenian Ecclesia II. Copenhagen. Pp. 25-72.
Stroud, Ronald S. 1998: The Athenian Tax Law of 374/3 B.C. Hesperia Supplement 29, Princeton NJ (American School of Classical Studies at Athens) See esp pp.18ff.
Hansen, Mogens Herman. 1989: "Rhetores and Strategoi in Fourth-Century Athens." In The Athenian Ecclesia II. Copenhagen. Pp. 25-72.
Stroud, Ronald S. 1998: The Athenian Tax Law of 374/3 B.C. Hesperia Supplement 29, Princeton NJ (American School of Classical Studies at Athens) See esp pp.18ff.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history8 revisions · last 30 Jul 2014
- updated a ref — David Whitehead
- augmented n.2; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- betacode cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Added note 4 and reference to Pronomus in Aristophanes. Cosmetics. — Robert Dyer
- added headword; augmented bibliography; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Debra Hamel