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Headword:
*)/ibukos
Adler number: iota,80
Translated headword: Ibykos, Ibycus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Ibycus] son of Phytios, but others [say] of Polyzelos the Messenian historiographer,[1] others yet of Kerdas. His family was from Rhegium.[2] From there he came to
Samos when
Polycrates the father of the tyrant was ruling.[3] This was at the time of Croesus, in the 54th Olympiad.[4] He became obsessed with the love of boys and was the first to invent the so-called sambuke (a kind of three-cornered kithara).[5] There are 7 books of his in the Doric dialect. When he was captured by robbers in a deserted place, he said that the very cranes which happened to be flying over would become his avengers. And he himself was killed; but after this one of the robbers in the city saw some cranes and said, "Behold the avengers of
Ibycus."[6] When someone heard this and followed up on these words, the deed was confessed and the robbers were punished. So from this came the proverb, "the cranes of
Ibycus".[7]
*)/ibukos, *futi/ou, oi( de\ *poluzh/lou tou= *messhni/ou i(storiogra/fou, oi( de\ *ke/rdantos: ge/nei *(rhgi=nos. e)nqe/nde ei)s *sa/mon h)=lqen, o(/te au)th=s h)=rxen o( *polukra/ths tou= tura/nnou path/r. xro/nos de\ ou(=tos o( e)pi\ *kroi/sou, o)lumpia\s nd#. ge/gone de\ e)rwtomane/statos peri\ meira/kia kai\ prw=tos eu(=re th\n kaloume/nhn sambu/khn: ei)=dos de/ e)sti kiqa/ras trigw/nou. e)/sti de\ au)tou= ta\ bibli/a z# th=| *dwri/di diale/ktw|. sullhfqei\s de\ u(po\ lh|stw=n e)pi\ e)rhmi/as e)/fh, ka)\n ta\s gera/nous, a(\s e)/tuxen u(peri/ptasqai, e)kdi/kous gene/sqai. kai\ au)to\s me\n a)nh|re/qh: meta\ de\ tau=ta tw=n lh|stw=n ei(=s e)n th=| po/lei qeasa/menos gera/nous e)/fh: i)/de, ai( *)ibu/kou e)/kdikoi. a)kou/santos de/ tinos kai\ e)pecelqo/ntos tw=| ei)rhme/nw|, to/ te gegono\s w(mologh/qh, kai\ di/kas e)/dwkan oi( lh|stai/: w(s e)k tou/tou kai\ paroimi/an gene/sqai, ai( *)ibu/kou ge/ranoi.
Notes:
OCD(4) s.v.; a western Greek poet of choral lyric, 6th c. BCE. See already
iota 77,
iota 78,
iota 79.
[1] Not otherwise known.
[2] Present-day Reggio di Calabria, in southern Italy; a Doric-speaking area.
[3] See on this Graham Shipley,
A History of Samos (Oxford 1987) 70 with n.7.
[4] 564-561.
Eusebius puts his floruit in the 61st Olympiad (536-533). For Croesus (Kroisos), see
kappa 2497 etc.
[5] See sambukai:
sigma 73 (also
iota 29).
[6] cf.
Plutarch,
Moralia 2.509F.
[7]
Zenobius 1.37 and other paroemiographers.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 April 2002@14:00:28.
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