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Headword:
Subaritikais
Adler number: sigma,1271
Translated headword: Sybaritic
Vetting Status: high
Translation: and Sybaric: luxurious, magnificent, extravagant: for the Sybarites are addicted to luxury.[1]
For these men lived so luxuriously, that they even taught their horses to dance to a pipe.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] 'to Sybarize', [meaning] to live luxuriously, or to cause an uproar. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Sybareian refrains', in
Epicharmus.[3]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Sybaritic tales', [i.e.] those of Aesop.[4]
Also [sc. attested is the aorist infinitive] to have Sybarized, [meaning] to have practised the customs of the Sybarites.[5]
And [there is] a saying: "a Sybarite through the street", in reference to those proceeding pompously [
sobarw=s].[6]
"Sybarites were gluttons and addicted to luxury. So great was devotion to luxury among them that of the peoples abroad they regarded Ionians and Tyrrhenians [= Etruscans] with special affection, on account of the fact that the former were foremost among the Greeks, and the latter among the barbarians, in the extravagance of their way of life. [...] Among them Mindyrides,[7] it is said, excelled in luxury. For when Cleisthenes, the tyrant of Sicyon, had won in a chariot race and issued a proclamation requiring the attendance of those men who proposed to marry his daughter, who was considered of outstanding beauty, this [Mindyrides] put to sea from Sybaris in a ship with fifty oars, having as rowers his own household slaves, some of them fishermen, others fowlers. Upon coming into Sicyon, by the opulence of his equipage he surpassed not only the rival suitors but also the tyrant himself, even though the entire city joined him in vying for this honour. At the dinner after his arrival, when a certain man approached with the intention of reclining beside him, he remarked that he was there in accordance with the proclamation and would recline either with a lady of Cleisthenes’ [house] or alone.[8]
Greek Original:Subaritikais kai Subarikais: truphêlais, lamprais, polutelesi: truphêtai gar hoi Subaritai. houtoi gar houtô diêgon truphêlôs, hôs kai tous hippous didaskein pros aulon orcheisthai. kai Subarizein, to truphan, ê to thorubein. kai Subareia epiphthegmata par' Epicharmôi. kai Subaritikoi logoi, hoi Aisôpeioi. kai Subarisai, ta tôn Subaritôn poiêsai. kai paroimia: Subaritês dia plateias, epi tôn sobarôs diaporeuomenôn. Subaritai de gastries êsan kai truphêtai. tosoutos de ên zêlos par' autois truphês, hôste kai tôn exôthen ethnôn malista êgapôn Iônas kai Turrênous, dioti sunebainen autous tous men tôn Hellênôn, tous de tôn barbarôn proechein têi kata to zên poluteleiai. para toutois de Minduridês legetai periousiasai truphêi: houtos gar Kleisthenous tou Sikuôniôn turannou nikêsantos harmati kai kêruxantos paragenesthai tous proairoumenous gamein autou tên thugatera, dokousan kallei diapherein, anachthênai tina ek Subareôs nêï pentêkonta tous eretas echonta idious oiketas, tous men halieis, tous de ornithothêras. paragenomenos de eis Sikuôna, tais kata tên ousian paraskeuais ou monon tous antimnêsteuontas, alla kai ton turannon auton huperarai, kaiper tês poleôs autôi pasês sumphilotimoumenês. en de tôi meta tên aphixin deipnôi prosiontos tinos, hopôs kataklithêi pros auton, eipein, hoti kata to kêrugma parestin ê meta Kleisthenous gunaikos ê monos kataklithêsomenos.
Notes:
See also
sigma 1269,
sigma 1270,
sigma 1272, and generally OCD4 s.v. Sybaris.
[1] The twin headwords with their glossing are derived from the
Synagoge sigma269 (Cunningham), which is also the source of
Photius,
Lexicon sigma658 Theodoridis (Porson 545.22-3); cf. also
Hesychius sigma2130, 2133, 2134, 2276 (Hansen). The two headwords are feminine dative plural adjectives without a governing noun. However, in the
Synagoge the gloss concludes
*suβαριτικαῖς τραπέζαις, 'Sybaritic tables', presumably with the sense of luxurious banquets; this appears to supply the missing noun, although the significance of the dative case and the original context remain unclear.
[2]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 12.520C (12.19 Kaibel).
[3] Scholion on
Aristophanes,
Peace 344b (Holwerda) =
Epicharmus fr. 222 Kassel/Austin = fr. 215 Kaibel.
[4] See likewise
Photius,
Lexicon sigma659 Theodoridis (Porson 546.1), and similarly
Hesychius sigma2131, 2276 for a more expansive explanation. See also
scholia on
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1259 and
Birds 471;
Diogenianus pr. 1.
[5] Attested only here.
[6] The saying is documented from the second century AD in collections of proverbs, which drew on earlier compilations; see
Diogenianus 8.10;
Zenobius 5.88. See also
Hesychius sigma2132; and cf. generally LSJ s.v.
sobaro/s, III.
[7] Summarily cross-referenced at
mu 1081.
[8]
Diodorus Siculus 8.18.1 and 8.19.1-2 (via
Excerpta Constantiniana EV I 215.20-216.8). This celebrated episode of Cleisthenes and the Trial of the Suitors (won by Megacles the Athenian) is recounted in
Herodotus 6.126-131; the Sybarite's name there is Smindyrides.
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Translated by: Philip Rance on 1 February 2012@14:51:16.
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