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Headword:
Kobaleia
Adler number: kappa,1896
Translated headword: roguery
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This was the name for childishness adopted with deceit, and a
ko/balos ["rogue"] [is] someone who behaves like that. [sc. The term] seems synonymous with buffoon.
Philochorus in [book] two of the
Atthis [writes]: "for it is not to be thought that, [as] some say, Dionysos became a sort of rogue and buffoon".[1]
Aristotle in [book] two of
History of Animals maintains that the owl, being a rogue and a mimic, catches [its prey] by imitating its dancing.[2]
Greek Original:Kobaleia: houtôs elegeto hê prospoiêtos meta apatês paidia. kai kobalos, ho tautêi chrômenos. eoike de sunônumon tôi bômolochôi. Philochoros deuterôi Atthidos: ou gar enioi legousi bômolochon tina kai kobalon genesthai nomisteon ton Dionuson. Aristotelês de en deuterôi Zôiôn historias ton ôton phêsi kobalon kai mimêtên onta, antorchoumenon haliskesthai.
Notes:
Keywords: daily life; definition; ethics; historiography; mythology; religion; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 August 2001@03:49:47.
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