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Headword: *sikuw/nios
Adler number: sigma,403
Translated headword: Sikyonian, Sicyonian
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
And they call the Sikyonian plain thus.[1]
And [sc. there is] a proverb: 'a Sikyonian set to work'.[2]
Greek Original:
*sikuw/nios: kai\ *sikuw/nion pedi/on ou(/tw kalou=si. kai\ paroimi/a: *sikuw/nios e)pape/du.
Notes:
The unglossed headword adjective probably refers to the city of this name, in the NE Peloponnese (cf. e.g. epsiloniota 337, mu 141, nu 218); but see also sigma 402.
[1] The phrase "Sikyonian plain" occurs twice in Lucian (Ikaromenippos 18.3; Navigium 20.13).
[2] (Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AF.) Same proverb in the paroemiographer Macarius Chrysocephalus (C14 CE) 7.62, where it is explicated as "in reference to those doing something daring but accomplishing nothing". He follows this in 7.63 with "Sikyonian runaway", meaning the same. One wonders how and why, in late antiquity, Sikyonians acquired such an unenviable reputation.
Keywords: daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; proverbs
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 5 August 2008@14:37:33.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 August 2008@04:07:30.
David Whitehead (augmented n.2; another keyword; cosmetics) on 17 August 2011@10:54:33.
David Whitehead on 24 December 2013@06:43:55.

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