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Headword:
*kleo/kritos
Adler number: kappa,1721
Translated headword: Kleokritos, Cleocritus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man was ridiculed in comedy as women-mad and debauched and an alien and low-born and a son of Kybele; [this last was] because softies were present in the mysteries of Rhea. Also, he had a bird-like appearance, which is why the proverb is said of debauchees.
Greek Original:*kleo/kritos: ou(=tos e)kwmw|dei=to w(s gunaiki/as kai\ ki/naidos kai\ ce/nos kai\ dusgenh\s kai\ *kube/lhs ui(o/s: e)pei\ e)n toi=s musthri/ois th=s *(re/as malakoi\ parh=san. h)=n de\ kai\ th\n o)/yin o)rniqw/dhs. ei)/rhtai ou)=n e)pi\ tw=n kinai/dwn h( paroimi/a.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 876 [877 in some editions], where he is mentioned: web address 1.
cf.
kappa 2586,
kappa 2587,
lambda 264.
The bird that Kleokritos allegedly looked like, mentioned earlier in the line, was the ostrich,
strouthos; and
Hesychius glosses that word as "lecher".
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995) 512-13
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery; proverbs; religion; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 July 2001@10:15:28.
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