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Headword:
Kuphônes
Adler number: kappa,2800
Translated headword: pillories
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They were timbers placed on the tendons of the condemned, so that they might not find [...] rising up.[1]
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "o racks and pillories, will you not come to my aid?"[2] A pillory is a wooden binding which some call a 'collar' and others a 'woody'. Hence even a criminal person [is called] a pillory. It is also applied to all things that are difficult and destructive. Also 'pillorization' [is applied] to punishments. Archilochos [uses the term] to means evil and destructive. It is called a 'pillory' [
ku/fwn] from the fact that the captives are compelled to bend over [
ku/fein].
"But if someone be so bold and pay no heed to what is in the law, let him be bound to the pillory next to the town hall for 20 days, doused in honey, naked, and in milk, to that he may be dinner for bees and flies. And when the time has passed, that he be pushed off a cliff, wrapping him in a woman's robe."[3]
Greek Original:Kuphônes: xula êsan epitithemena eis tous tenontas tôn katadikôn, hina mê heurôsin anakupsan. Aristophanês Ploutôi: ô tumpana kai kuphônes, ouk arêxete; kuphôn de esti desmos xulinos, hon hoi men kloion, hoi de kalion onomazousin. enthen kai ho ponêros anthrôpos kuphôn. tassetai kai epi pantôn duscherôn kai olethriôn. kai kuphanismos epi tôn timôriôn. Archilochos de anti tou kakos kai olethrios. eirêtai kuphôn para to anankazein tous desmious kuphein. ean de tis thrasunomenos ta ek tou nomou par' ouden poiêsêtai, dedesthô en kuphôni pros tôi archeiôi hêmerôn k#, epirreomenos meliti gumnos kai galakti, hina êi melittais kai muiais deipnon. tou de chronou dielthontos, kata krêmnôn ôtheisthai, stolên gunaikeian peribalontas.
Notes:
[1] In place of
a)naku/yan here the
scholia to
Aristophanes (see next note) read
a)naku=yai, producing better sense: "so that they might not find a way to rise up." From this and other references the "tendons" in question must be tendons of the upper body: the arm, perhaps, or the neck.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 476 (web address 1), preceded and followed by comments from the
scholia there; cf. already
kappa 2796.
[3] From
Aelian fr. 42a Domingo-Forasté (39 Hercher), quoted more extensively and coherently at
epsilon 2405. The text purports to be part of a law from the city of
Lyktos (
Lyttos) in Crete dealing with the banishment and punishment of Epicurean philosophers.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
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Translated by: William Hutton on 9 March 2008@19:03:33.
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