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Headword:
*filu/rinos
*kinhsi/as
Adler number: phi,459
Translated headword: limewood Kinesias
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man was a dithyrambic poet. "Lime-wood" means green -- for the lime-tree [is] green; or light, as if to suggest that a dithyrambic poet creates worthless, light things; [1] and indeed this wood [is] light and delicate. But [Kinesias] was also lame and club-footed.
Greek Original:*filu/rinos *kinhsi/as: ou(=tos diqurambopoio\s ge/gone. filu/rinos de\ a)nti\ tou= xlwro/s: h( ga\r filu/ra xlwro/n: h)\ kou=fos, w(s a)\n diqu- rambopoio\s eu)telh= kai\ kou=fa poiw=n: kai\ ga\r to\ cu/lon tou=to kou=fon kai\ e)lafro/n. h)=n de\ kai\ xwlo\s kai\ kullo/s.
Notes:
For Kinesias see
kappa 1639,
delta 1029 (cf.
alpha 2657,
alpha 2862,
delta 1178,
kappa 822,
lambda 272,
tau 693,
phi 397,
phi 458). The present headword-phrase comes from
Aristophanes,
Birds 1378, and the entry draws on the
scholia there.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 12.551D [12.76 Kaibel], proffers a theory of (apparently) his own: that the emaciated K. wore a lime-wood corset. Dunbar 667 reviews these and other explanations of the word; she also discusses the explanations that K. was lame and club-footed.
[1] The unfavourable interpretation here may reflect Platonist prejudices. See
Plato,
Gorgias 501E-502A (web address 1).
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Lawler, L.B. "'Limewood' Cinesias and the dithyrambic dance," TAPhA 81 (1950) 78-88
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; botany; comedy; imagery; medicine; philosophy; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 July 2001@10:49:50.
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