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Headword:
Skôptolai
Adler number: sigma,689
Translated headword: jokers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] people fond of scoffing.[1] "[...] jokers and brutes all -- and they [= the people of
Tarsos] were more interested in their linens than Athenians were in wisdom."[2]
Greek Original:Skôptolai: philoskômmones. skôptolai te kai hubristai pantes, kai dedôkasi têi othonêi mallon ê sophiai Athênaioi.
Notes:
Adler reports that this entry is lacking in ms A and placed after
omicron 664 in FV; she regards it as an interpolation.
[1] The nominative plural headword is presumably taken from the quotation given; cf. generally
sigma 688.
[2]
Philostratus,
Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.7; quoted also at
omicron 80, and more fully at
epsilon 3504.
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 October 2009@20:01:08.
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