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Headword: Philoklês
Adler number: phi,379
Translated headword: Philokles, Philocles
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A comic poet,[1] ugly in appearance. He was prominent-headed, like a hoopoe, i.e. pointy-headed; a son of a sister of Aeschylus. But others maintain that his nickname was Briny, because of his being bitter; for brine is [an example of] bitterness. So [the word prokephalos] is applied to those with pointed heads.
Greek Original:
Philoklês, kômôidias poiêtês, aischroprosôpos. ên de proke- phalos, hôs epops, êgoun oxukephalos: Aischulou adelphês huios. hoi de Halmiôna auton phasin epithetikôs, dia to pikron einai: halmê gar hê pikria. eirêtai oun epi tôn oxukephalôn.
Notes:
This material draws on scholia to Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 168 and (esp.) Birds 281.
[1] Tragic, rather; see phi 378, and cf. pi 2464.
Keywords: biography; comedy; ethics; imagery; medicine; tragedy; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 April 2003@10:54:41.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 19 January 2004@14:36:07.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 20 January 2004@03:02:38.
David Whitehead on 10 December 2013@10:08:33.

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