Kleon, the general of the Athenians.[1] [sc. So called] because of the sound of his voice. From the [verb] paphlazein;[2] for he was a foreigner and a barbaros [non-Greek].[3]
*paflagw/n: o( *kle/wn, o( tw=n *)aqhnai/wn strathgo/s. dia\ to\ th=s fwnh=s a)phxe/s. a)po\ tou= pafla/zein: ce/nos ga\r h)=n kai\ ba/rbaros.
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 2, where the present headword appears in the accusative case.
[1] See
kappa 1731; no.1659 in index I of Robert Develin,
Athenian Officials 684-321 BC (Cambridge, 1989). The character Paphlagon in
Aristophanes'
Knights (
Equites), that is, is a stand-in for Kleon.
[2] To bluster, sputter; cf.
Knights 919, and
pi 827.
[3] In other words, his speech reflected his origins. So accompanying the etymology given here is an insinuation that Kleon hails from the region which the ancients called
Paphlagonia, on the southern shore of the Black Sea.
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