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Headword: *stro/biloi
Adler number: sigma,1208
Translated headword: pirouettes, spinning-tops
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[A nickname for] sons of the poet Carcinus,[1] according to Aristophanes; [the ones] whom he has also called knapsack-necks.[2] And [there is] a saying: 'happier than Carcinus' spinning-tops'. Meaning more ill-starred: [i.e. 'happier' is said] in irony.[3]
Spiral-shell snails and maritime trumpet-shells [are] also [referred to as] strobiloi.[4]
Greek Original:
*stro/biloi: *karki/nou tou= poihtou= ui(oi/, w(s *)aristofa/nhs: ou(\s kai\ guliotraxh/lous ei)/rhke. kai\ paroimi/a: eu)daimone/steros tw=n *karki/nou strobi/lwn. a)nti\ tou= kakodaimone/steros: e)n ei)rwnei/a|. *stro/biloi kai\ oi( koxli/ai kai\ oi( qala/ssioi kh/rukes.
Notes:
The headword is a noun in the masculine nominative (and vocative) plural, with diverse senses: round ball, spinning-top, cyclone, turn in music, pirouette, pine-cone, and snail; cf. epsilon 3402, kappa 2289 (gloss), sigma 1207; see generally LSJ s.v. stro/bilos.
The entry is generated by Aristophanes, Peace 864 (web address 1), presented here as a 'saying', where the genitive plural form of the headword (strobi/lwn) occurs. See the corresponding scholia (= scholia vetera), which the Suda generally follows (see further below).
[1] The elder Carcinus (Karkinos) was a tragic dramatist active in Athens in the second half of the fifth century BCE, and also on the board of generals for the year 432/431 (Develin no. 1576; OCD(4) s.v. Carcinus(1) and kappa 396; see generally alpha 2802, epsilon 3402, sigma 1762 (gloss), and epsilon 1147). His three sons were dancers (spinning-tops), and they and their father Xenocles are all mocked at Aristophanes, Peace 864 (web address 1) and 781-795 (web address 2); Aristophanes, Wasps 1497-1534 (web address 3); and Aristophanes, Clouds 1260 ff. (web address 4); see Dover, pp. 242-3.
[2] A gulio/s is a long-shaped wallet (LSJ s.v.), typically a long, woven soldier's pouch, knapsack, or kitbag for carrying food and sundry items; cf. gamma 476, kappa 396 (gloss), kappa 2465 (gloss), and sigma 1762 (gloss). The compound guliotraxh/lous (accusative plural) is attested only here and at epsilon 3402.
[3] From a scholion (scholia vetera) to Aristophanes, Peace 864 (web address 1). [In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that mss AFV and M (after correction) read ei)rwnei/ais: ironies.]
[4] This additional material is also in other lexica; see Photius sigma627 Theodoridis (first part) and other references there.
References:
R. Develin, Athenian Officials 684-321 BC, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989
K.J. Dover, Aristophanes: Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3,
Web address 4
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Translated by: Ronald Allen on 11 March 2013@02:28:15.
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