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Headword: *ko/kkos
Adler number: kappa,1915
Translated headword: Kokkos, Coccus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A rhetor, an Athenian, a pupil of Isocrates.[1] [He wrote] rhetorical speeches.
Greek Original:
*ko/kkos, r(h/twr, *)aqhnai=os, maqhth\s *)isokra/tous. lo/gous r(htorikou/s.
Notes:
Mentioned only here and in Quintilian 12.10.21, where he seems to be a contemporary of Lysias and Andocides, i.e. as much in the C5 as the C4 BCE. Any "pupil of Isocrates" would need, on the face of it, to be a generation later. But in fact the name is unique in Attic prosopography - see LGPN ii s.v. - and there has to be a serious possibility that it is not a proper name but a nickname (though for whom?); LSJ s.v. ko/kkos offers various possibilities (web address 1 below), i.e. Seedy, Weedy.
[1] See iota 652.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; botany; geography; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 May 2001@03:51:03.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Added link, raised status) on 28 May 2001@10:28:35.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 11 July 2004@09:24:18.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 27 July 2011@05:38:01.
David Whitehead on 6 March 2013@08:52:43.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 7 March 2013@00:01:28.

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