Σκόλυθρον

Notes

1. = Photius sigma357 Theodoridis, taken to come from Pausanias the Atticist (sigma18); and cf. already Hesychius sigma1076. The only literary attestation of the headword -- which is either masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective -- comes in a fragment of Teleclides' lost comedy Amphictyons (fr. 3 Kock and K.-A.), in a context in which just about any pejorative connotation would be appropriate. Several ancient authorities connect the adjective to the noun sko/luqron or skolu/qrion, meaning 'footstool' (cf. sigma 569), the idea presumably being that a person who is sko/luqros is low like a footstool; cf. Pausanias, Hesychius, Theognostus 34. The tenor of the present gloss is etymological, implying that sko/luqron is a combination of sknipo/n ('stingy') and a)neleu/qeron ('illiberal').