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Headword: Kalôs
Adler number: kappa,259
Translated headword: cord
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a rope.[1]
And [there is] a saying: "to move every rope". [Aristophanes] says it figuratively from the mast. You must unfurl the sails; that is, move everything with a view to prevailing over him.[2]
Also [sc. attested is] ka/lws, [genitive] ka/lw, in Attic.[3]
Aristophanes [writes] in Frogs: "there is one [sc. way to Hades] from a cord and a stool."[4] From the nominative [form] ka/lws.
Greek Original:
Kalôs: schoinion. kai paroimia: panta kalôn kinein. tropikôs apo tou histou legei. haploun se dei ta armena: toutesti panta kinein huper tou perigenesthai autou. kai Kalôs, kalô, Attikôs. Aristophanês Batrachois: mia men estin apo kalô kai thraniou. apo eutheias tês kalôs.
Notes:
[1] cf. kappa 255
[2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 756 (where nothing quite like this occurs; see rather under nu 602). Proverbial in Apostolius 2.99 and other paroemiographers. See also pi 221.
[3] cf. kappa 247, kappa 255.
[4] Aristophanes, Frogs 121 (on suicide), with scholion; cf. theta 453.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; proverbs; science and technology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 8 March 2008@16:48:36.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 9 March 2008@07:27:31.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2; tweaking) on 25 January 2013@06:33:25.
Catharine Roth (another cross-reference) on 1 May 2021@23:01:11.
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