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Headword: Kapêlos
Adler number: kappa,337
Translated headword: retailer, huckster
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Some suppose [it] to be one [word] in place of another, as in the [quotation] from Sophocles: "much mud is stirred up from jars."[1] Sophocles [is] prone to [use the word] phlo/s ["mud"]. However, wine is not mud. But where does the retailer get wine from? For a wine-seller is one thing and a retailer something else. For in general they used to call those selling something ka/phloi ["retailers"]. [The word] is also [used] by Sophron in the Seamstresses.[2] But Aeschylus calls all trickery kaphlei=a ["hucksterism"]: "[he] offering the skills of a huckster."[3]
Greek Original:
Kapêlos: hen anth' henos tines oiontai einai: hoion ek tou para Sophoklei. polus de pêlos ek pithôn turbazetai. ho men oun Sophoklês euepiphoros es ton pêlon. ho mentoi oinos ouk esti pêlos. pothen de en tôi kapêlôi ho oinos enginetai; kai gar heteron estin oinopôlês kai heteron kapêlos. katholou gar tous pôlountas ti kapêlous elegon. esti de kai para Sôphroni en tais Akestriais. ho de Aischulos ta dolia panta kapêleia kalei: kapêla propherôn technêmata.
Notes:
See also kappa 336, tau 4.
[1] Sophocles fr.783. The commentator is saying that just as Sophocles can use the word "mud" instead of "wine," so "retailer" can be used instead of "wine-seller."
[2] Sophron [sigma 893, sigma 894], fr.1 K.-A.
[3] Aeschylus fr.322. Cf. kappa 333, with a different sense of the word.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; trade and manufacture; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 September 2008@01:15:13.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 29 September 2008@03:19:18.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr, for clarity) on 29 September 2008@13:34:30.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 29 September 2008@14:07:21.
David Whitehead on 27 January 2013@05:27:22.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 February 2013@00:16:41.
David Whitehead (updated n.2) on 21 December 2014@10:31:52.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 7 April 2019@00:57:20.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 7 April 2019@00:59:14.

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