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Headword: *filotimo/terai *kleofw=ntos
Adler number: phi,433
Translated headword: more honor-bound than Kleophon
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
["(accomplishments) more honor-bound than Kleophon], upon whose [bilingual] lips [formidably] roars a Thracian swallow." Meaning unsophisticated. He is mocking him as a Thracian, a Thracian woman's son; [it is he] who used to be called a cheesemaker;[1] and he used to be ridiculed for low birth. He used to pursue the city's positions of primacy, as general of the Athenians.[2] It was against this demagogue that an (?)entire[3] drama of Plato[4] is transmitted and was homonymously entitled Kleophon.[5] He is slandered as a foreigner and unlearned and a babbler.
Greek Original:
*filotimo/terai *kleofw=ntos, e)f' ou(= dh\ xei/lesin e)pibre/metai *qrhi+ki/a xelidw/n: a)nti\ tou= a)paideusi/a. skw/ptei de\ au)to\n w(s *qra=|ka, ui(o\n *qra/|sshs: o(\s e)kalei=to turopoio/s: e)kwmw|dei=to de\ ei)s dusge/neian. a)ntepoiei=to de\ tw=n prwtei/wn th=s po/lews, strathgo\s *)aqhnai/wn. ei)s o(\n dhmagwgo\n lo/gon dra=ma fe/retai *pla/twnos kai\ e)pigra/fetai o(mwnu/mws *kleofw=n. diaba/lletai de\ w(s ce/nos kai\ a)maqh\s kai\ flu/aros.
Notes:
An approximation of Aristophanes, Frogs 679-681 (web address 1), with scholion. (Adler prints the whole passage in headword format.)
See generally on this lyric passage, and how to capture its nuances in translation, Dover, Aristophanic Comedy 233-237.
On the concept of philotimia -- literally the love of honour, and something good or bad depending on the context -- see phi 431, and generally D. Whitehead in OCD(4) s.v.
Kleophon, son of Kleippides (Develin, person no.1672), was one of Athens' leading pro-democracy politicians in the period 410-405 BCE, associated especially and increasingly with a belligerent stand against peace with Sparta. See generally P.J. Rhodes in OCD4 s.v. Cleophon(1). (There was possibly a tragic poet of the same name, but see under kappa 1730, and A.L. Brown in OCD4 Cleophon[2].)
[1] So the Suda mss, tyropoios, but by changing the initial letter this becomes the lyropoios ('lyre-maker') attested elsewhere. See Andokides 1.146 (web address 2) and Aeschines 2.76 (web address 3).
[2] Tentatively accepted by Connor (p.145), Develin (p.187) and others.
[3] Reading o(/lon for lo/gon with the scholia (and Bernhardy).
[4] Athenian comic poet (pi 1708).
[5] Entered at the Lenaia (lambda 456) in 405 BCE against Frogs and the Muses of Phrynichos (phi 763). Aristophanes won the competition, and Plato's Kleophon placed third (Edmonds, pp. 507-9).
References:
K.J. Dover, Aristophanes Frogs, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993
R. Develin, Athenian Officials 684-321 BC, Cambridge: Cambridge Unversity Press, 1989
W.R. Connor, The New Politicians of Fifth-Century Athens, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971
K.J. Dover, Aristophanic Comedy, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972
J.M. Edmonds, The Fragments of Attic Comedy, vol. I, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1957
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
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Translated by: Ronald Allen on 30 July 2007@23:08:51.
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David Whitehead (augmented and rearranged notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 31 July 2007@04:03:48.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 31 July 2007@20:15:27.
David Whitehead (further tweaks to primary note) on 1 August 2007@03:05:48.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 12 December 2013@04:07:24.
David Whitehead (updated one ref, added others) on 7 August 2014@03:24:50.
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