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Headword: *eu)daimone/steros tw=n *karki/nou strobi/lwn
Adler number: epsilon,3402
Translated headword: happier than the pirouettes of Karkinos
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning most unhappy. [Said] in irony. 'Pirouettes' is what Aristophanes is calling the sons of the poet Karkinos,[1] whom he has previously called 'quails' and 'long-shaped wallet-necks' because of their bodily sharpness.[2] Alternatively, joking with the name karkinos ["crab"]; for crabs, just like strobiloi, are hard-shelled.[3] Or on account of being whirled about in the dance; since pirouettes also have [the properties] of pine-cones in a way. Or because a pirouette is a turning-round. So [Aristophanes] did call [them] pirouettes, insofar as elsewhere [he] also [called them] stork-necked.[4]
And Sophocles [says]: '[sc. I am] not one accounted happy for his eminent fate'. Meaning [for a fate] not good, but bad. Not of am eminent fate where happiness is concerned, but on the contrary, the extremity of unhappiness.[5]
Greek Original:
*eu)daimone/steros tw=n *karki/nou strobi/lwn: a)nti\ tou= kakodaimone/statos. e)n ei)rwnei/a|. strobi/lous fhsi\n *)aristofa/nhs tou\s ui(ou\s *karki/nou tou= poihtou=, ou(\s a)nwte/rw o)/rtugas kai\ guliotraxh/lous ei)/rhke dia\ to\ traxu\ tou= sw/matos. h)\ pro\s to\ tou= karki/nou o)/noma pai/zwn: o)strako/dermoi ga\r oi( karki/noi kaqa/per kai\ oi( stro/biloi. h)\ dia\ to\ e)n th=| o)rxh/sei strobei=sqai: e)pei\ kai\ oi( stro/biloi kw/nwn e)/xousi di/khn. h)\ o(/ti stro/bilo/s e)stin h( sustrofh/. strobi/lous ou)=n ei)=pe, kaqo\ kai\ a)llaxou= guliau/xenas. kai\ *sofoklh=s: ou) pa/nu moi/ras eu)daimonh=sai prw/ths. a)nti\ tou=, ou)k a)gaqh=s, a)lla\ kakh=s. ou) pa/nu th=s prw/ths kat' eu)daimoni/an moi/ras: tou)nanti/on de/, kata\ dusdaimoni/an e)sxa/thn.
Notes:
The principal paragraph here draws on the scholia to Aristophanes, Peace 864, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1).
[1] See also sigma 1208 (and sigma 1207 for the dance), and cf. generally kappa 394, kappa 396.
[2] Lines 788-9 (here approximated).
[3] This is strobilos in the sense of snail (cf. sigma 1208).
[4] Note 2 above.
[5] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 144-145, with comment from the scholia there.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; poetry; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 7 July 2003@16:06:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword; modified and augmented translation and notes; augmented keywords; cosmetics) on 8 July 2003@05:10:37.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 5 November 2012@08:41:43.
Catharine Roth (added a link) on 18 January 2018@00:47:55.

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