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Headword: *khfiso/dhmos
Adler number: kappa,1563
Translated headword: Kephisodemos, Cephisodemus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
An Athenian, a loquacious orator, with expertise in lawsuits; a political opponent of Perikles. But "Skythian wilderness" [means] savagery, destruction. For these Skythians are carried on waggons.
Greek Original:
*khfiso/dhmos, *)aqhnai=os, la/los r(h/twr, deino\s peri\ ta\s di/kas, a)ntipoliteuo/menos *periklei=. *skuqw=n de\ e)rhmi/a, h( a)grio/ths, o( o)/leqros. ou(=toi ga\r e)pi\ tw=n a(macw=n fe/rontai oi( *sku/qai.
Notes:
From the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 703-5, where he is mentioned: "for how is fitting that a man bent double, such as Thoukydides, should perish, entangled in the Skythian wilderness, at the hands of this Kephisodemos the loquacious advocate?" (web address 1).
Kephisodemos is unattested outside this passage, but Thoukydides can be none other than Th. Melesiou, probably the grandfather of the historian (theta 414) and certainly the principal opponent of Perikles (pi 1179 etc.); see generally OCD(4), under Thucydides(1).
Reference:
J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971) 231-2
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; geography; history; law; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 July 2001@07:12:38.
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