[Meaning] one [which is] shaggy. For such billy-goats occur in
Cilicia.[1] Whence also the [sc. garments] put together from [sc. their] hairs are called Cilicians.[2]
The Cilicians had been calumniated for wickedness. From which also [comes the expression] 'one acts like a Cilician', meaning one acts maliciously; for to act like a Cilician is to behave maliciously.[3]
*kili/kios tra/gos: o( dasu/s. toiou=toi ga\r e)n *kiliki/a| gi/nontai tra/goi. o(/qen kai\ ta\ e)k tw=n trixw=n suntiqe/mena *kili/kia le/gontai. o(/ti oi( *ki/likes e)pi\ ponhri/a| diebe/blhnto. o(/qen kai\ to\ e)gkilikeu/etai, a)nti\ tou= kakohqeu/etai: e)gkiliki/zein ga\r to\ kakohqi/zesqai.
The headword phrase is (or became) proverbial, and perhaps originated in Attic comedy: see adespota fr. 806 Kock, now 468 Kassel-Austin. Its adjective is the masculine form of
*kili/kios, -a, -on,
Cilician (cf. n. 1).
[1] An area within southern Asia Minor (ancient Turkey),
Cilicia (
*kiliki/a; Barrington Atlas map 66 grid D4) is on the Mediterranean coast, between
Pamphylia (OCD(4) s.v.) to the west and
Syria to the east; cf. LSJ s.v.
*ki/lic.
[2] Traditionally crafted in the region, a
Cilician is also a robe woven from goat hair: see already
kappa 1605, and cf.
Diogenianus 5.54,
Etymologicum Magnum 513.43,
Photius,
Lexicon kappa700 Theodoridis (s.v.
kigkio/pragoi, corrupt),
Hesychius kappa2676. [In her critical apparatus Adler again reports the relevant lemma in
Hesychius as
*kili/kioi lo/goi,
Cilician accounts; see on this the note at
kappa 1605.]
[3] This part of the entry has (approximately) appeared already at
epsilon 97. For the Cilicians' reputation, cf.
kappa 1606 and
kappa 1608.
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