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Headword:
Kullos
Adler number: kappa,2670
Translated headword: gimpy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one who is disabled.
The Attic authors call people 'gimpy' in the case of [impairments of] feet and the the hands; likewise they call 'lame' those who are disabled in the hand.
Eupolis [writes]: "because you are very lame in your hand."[1] There is also the expression 'Gimp's Satchel', a place in Attica called that.[2] It is also a fountain from which barren women drink in order to conceive.
Kullos: ho pepêrômenos. Kullous de Attikoi kalousin epi podôn kai epi tôn cheirôn: homoiôs kai chôlous tous cheira pepêrômenous. Eupolis: hoti chôlos ei su tên cheira sphodra. legetai kai Kullou pêra, topos houtô kaloumenos en têi Attikêi. esti de kai krênê, aph' hês tas steriphas pinein gunaikas, hina sullambanôsi.
Notes:
See also
kappa 2671 (and
chi 425);
Lexicon Vindobonense 33. The headword occurs in
Aristophanes,
Birds 1379 (web address 1) and the commentary probably stems from that reference.
[1]
Eupolis fr. 247 Kock, now part of 264 K.-A.
[2] cf.
kappa 2672, and
Photius,
Lexicon kappa1193 Theodoridis, who says the place also goes by the name of "Satchel"
*ph/ra or "Kollopera" (
kolloph/ra), and is located near Mt.
Hymettos. See also
Appendix Proverbiorum 3.52 and other paroemiographic collections.
Web address 1
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Translated by: William Hutton on 29 March 2008@19:37:43.
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