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Headword: Aïdos kunê
Adler number: alpha,676
Translated headword: Hades' dog-skin [helmet]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes [writes]: "take for my sake the shadow-shaggy Hades helmet from Hieronymos." The proverb[1] was [sc. originally] said about those who are invisible. But now about those who grow their hair exceedingly long. For this Hieronymos was a melic and tragic poet [who was] deviant and unkempt, because he wrote roles that were too sentimental and used fearful masks; he seemed to be (?)applauded.[2] He was mocked for growing his hair all long: wherefore comedically [Aristophanes] said he is Hades' dog-skin, since he has long hair.
Greek Original:
Aïdos kunê: Aristophanês: labe d' emou g' heneka par' Hierônumou skotodasupuknotricha tên Aïdos kunên. epi tôn aphanôn eirêtai hê paroimia. nun de epi tôn agan komôntôn. houtos gar ho Hierônumos melôn ên poiêtês kai tragôidos anômalos kai anoikonomêtos, dia to agan empatheis graphein hupotheseis kai phoberois prosôpeiois chrêsthai: edokei kroteisthai. ekômôideito de hôs panu komôn: dioper Aïdos kunên ephê auton kômôidikôs, hôs koureiônta.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Acharnians 388-390 (web address 1 below), with scholia. Modern editors prefer tin to the transmitted th\n, i.e. "a" rather than "the" helmet.)
On Hieronymos son of Xenophantes see also kappa 1768, where he is given similar attributes but, apparently in error, under the headword Kleitos (Clitus). He apparently also wrote comedies and dithyrambs.
[1] See under alpha 675.
[2] The sense of the multi-meaning verb krotei=sqai here is unclear.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; clothing; comedy; daily life; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery; military affairs; mythology; poetry; proverbs; stagecraft; trade and manufacture; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 17 March 2001@23:54:36.
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