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Headword:
Karkinos
Adler number: kappa,394
Translated headword: Karkinos, Carcinus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Karkinos] of Acragas,[1] a tragedian. Also[2] Karkinos, son of Theodektes or
Xenocles,[3] an Athenian, a tragedian. He produced 160 plays and had 1 victory.[4] He was in his prime during the 100th Olympiad,[5] before the kingship of Philip of Macedon. Among his plays are
Achilles,
Semele or
Beginning, as
Athenaeus says in
Philosophers at Dinner.[6]
Lysias [writes]: "for the bitches, he says, were spoiled by going in to my "crab"."[7] And whenever the grain is rooted in the ground, they say that it has spread crab-wise.
Pherecrates [writes]: "whenever you are at leisure, send some snow so that the wheat crop may intertwine its roots like a crab."[8] A disease occurring in bodies is also called "crab." This is now called carcinoma. The word is also found frequently as a proper name.
Karkinos, Akragantinos, tragikos. kai Karkinos, Theodektou ê Xenokleous, Athênaios, tragikos. dramata edidaxen rx#, enikêse de a#. êkmaze kata tên r# olumpiada, pro tês Philippou basileias tou Makedonos. tôn dramatôn autou estin Achilleus, Semelê, ê archê, hôs Athênaios phêsin en Deipnosophistais. Lusias: elumainonto gar mou ton karkinon eisphoitôsai, phêsin, hai kunes. kai hotan ho sitos rhizôthêi kata tês gês, kekarkinôsthai phasi. Pherekratês: hopotan scholazêis, nêpson, hina ta lêïa sunkarkinôthêi. legetai karkinos kai pathos ti sumbainon en tois sômasin: ho nun karkinôma legetai. heurisketai de pollakis kai kurion onoma.
Notes:
The second part of this entry is abridged and expanded from Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v.
[1] In
Sicily.
[2] See generally OCD(4) s.v.
Carcinus(2).
[3] Harpok. gives
Xenocles of
Thorikos as Karkinos' father.
[4] A restoration in IG 2.2325, a list of victors in the tragic contests at the City Dionysia, gives Karkinos eleven victories, requiring the emendation of the Suda's
a’ to
ia’. See Pickard-Cambridge 112. For the fragments of Kratinos' plays, see Nauck 797-800. For Karkinos as a tragedian of the fourth century, see Webster 300-301.
[5] 380-377.
[6]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 5.189D [5.15 Kaibel], cf. 13.559F [13.8].
[7]
Lysias fr. 154 Sauppe, now 206 Carey OCT (where the meaning of "crab" is unclear).
[8]
Pherecrates fr. 20 Kock (24 K.-A.), from the
Deserters. The manuscript reading
nh=yon ('stay sober') from
nh/fw is emended to
nei=yon ('snow'). See also Harpok.;
Pollux 7.150. (The comment is addressed to Zeus.)
August Nauck. Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta. Supplementum continens nova fragmenta Euripidea et Adespota apud scriptores veteres reperta. Edited by Bruno Snell. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1964
T.B.L. Webster, "Fourth Century Tragedy and the Poets." Hermes 82 (1954): 294-308
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Translated by: Wm. Blake Tyrrell on 19 September 2005@20:44:46.
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