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Headword:
Ibukos
Adler number: iota,80
Translated headword: Ibykos, Ibycus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Ibycus] son of Phytios, but others [say] of Polyzelos the Messenian historiographer,[1] others yet of Kerdas. His family was from Rhegium.[2] From there he came to
Samos when
Polycrates the father of the tyrant was ruling.[3] This was at the time of Croesus, in the 54th Olympiad.[4] He became obsessed with the love of boys and was the first to invent the so-called sambuke (a kind of three-cornered kithara).[5] There are 7 books of his in the Doric dialect. When he was captured by robbers in a deserted place, he said that the very cranes which happened to be flying over would become his avengers. And he himself was killed; but after this one of the robbers in the city saw some cranes and said, "Behold the avengers of
Ibycus."[6] When someone heard this and followed up on these words, the deed was confessed and the robbers were punished. So from this came the proverb, "the cranes of
Ibycus".[7]
Greek Original:Ibukos, Phutiou, hoi de Poluzêlou tou Messêniou historiographou, hoi de Kerdantos: genei Rhêginos. enthende eis Samon êlthen, hote autês êrchen ho Polukratês tou turannou patêr. chronos de houtos ho epi Kroisou, olumpias nd#. gegone de erôtomanestatos peri meirakia kai prôtos heure tên kaloumenên sambukên: eidos de esti kitharas trigônou. esti de autou ta biblia z# têi Dôridi dialektôi. sullêphtheis de hupo lêistôn epi erêmias ephê, kan tas geranous, has etuchen huperiptasthai, ekdikous genesthai. kai autos men anêirethê: meta de tauta tôn lêistôn heis en têi polei theasamenos geranous ephê: ide, hai Ibukou ekdikoi. akousantos de tinos kai epexelthontos tôi eirêmenôi, to te gegonos hômologêthê, kai dikas edôkan hoi lêistai: hôs ek toutou kai paroimian genesthai, hai Ibukou geranoi.
Notes:
OCD(4) s.v.; a western Greek poet of choral lyric, 6th c. BCE. See already
iota 77,
iota 78,
iota 79.
[1] Not otherwise known.
[2] Present-day Reggio di Calabria, in southern Italy; a Doric-speaking area.
[3] See on this Graham Shipley,
A History of Samos (Oxford 1987) 70 with n.7.
[4] 564-561.
Eusebius puts his floruit in the 61st Olympiad (536-533). For Croesus (Kroisos), see
kappa 2497 etc.
[5] See sambukai:
sigma 73 (also
iota 29).
[6] cf.
Plutarch,
Moralia 2.509F.
[7]
Zenobius 1.37 and other paroemiographers.
Keywords: biography; chronology; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; meter and music; poetry; politics; proverbs; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 April 2002@14:00:28.
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