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Headword:
*)agora\
*kerkw/pwn
Adler number: alpha,301
Translated headword: market of Kerkopes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They[1] were in
Ephesus. Herakles bound them on the orders of Omphale, but he shrank from killing them since their mother begged him. The proverb is spoken in reference to ill-behaved and knavish people.
*)agora\ *kerkw/pwn: ou(=toi e)n *)efe/sw| h)=san, ou(\s e)/dhsen *(hraklh=s, *)omfa/lhs keleuou/shs: ou(\s a)poktei=nai h)|de/sqh, th=s mhtro\s dehqei/shs. h( de\ paroimi/a ei)/rhtai e)pi\ tw=n kakoh/qwn kai\ ponhrw=n a)nqrw/pwn.
Note:
[1] That is, the Kerkopes (for whom cf. e.g.
kappa 1410); they were "a race of mischievous dwarfs connected by legend with Heracles" (LSJ s.v.). For the story see Apollodoros 2.6.3 (web address 1 below). For the phrase "market of Kerkopes" as meaning "knaves' market" see
Diogenes Laertius 9.114; also
Zenobius 1.5 and other paroemiographers.
OCD(4) pp.1038-9 (s.v. Omphale)
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: daily life; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; mythology; proverbs; women; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 29 October 2000@23:02:14.
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