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Headword:
Koalemos
Adler number: kappa,1894
Translated headword: blockhead, dolt, dunce
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Conatined in the word is the [adjective]
h)le/maton, namely "idle",[1] and the [verb]
koei=n, which means "to perceive".[2] So someone who is foolish and perceives fruitlessly is called a
koalemos. In
Aristophanes koalemoi are those who perceive and understand idly.
Koalemos: enkeitai têi lexei to êlematon, êgoun to mataion: kai to koein, ho esti noein. ho oun anoêtos kai matên koôn koalemos legetai. Koalemoi para Aristophanei hoi êlemata koountes kai noountes.
Notes:
See also
kappa 1893.
The folk etymology is taken from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 198, where the invective is used. Other derivations combine
koei=n with
a)lw/menos "wandering" (
Suetonius,
*peri\ blasfhmiw=n 7),
a)/lema "vain" (Orion [
Author,
Myth]),
e)lu/mata "plough stock" (ps.-
Zonaras), and
h)leo/s "crazed" (also in
scholia ad loc.).
[1] This parenthetic explanatory phrase, not in the
scholia, is borrowed from
eta 203.
[2] cf.
epsilon 523,
sigma 630.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 3 January 2009@09:04:57.
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