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Headword:
Thiasôtês
Kotuos
Adler number: theta,381
Translated headword: devotee of Kotys
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Kotys, a divinity worshipped among Corinthians, presider over the debauched.[1]
"This is the source of those Kleistheneses and Timarchoses and all those who, for the sake of money, make their youth accessible [...] for an accursed pleasure. All at once the effeminate are all daintily-coiffed. But those in the brothels are openly this way. And yet they think they are victorious, since in this respect they have especially mimicked the female of the species."[2]
Greek Original:Thiasôtês Kotuos. Kotus, daimôn para Korinthiois timômenos, ephoros tôn aischrôn. hothen hoi Kleisthenai kai Timarchoi kai pantes hoi pros argurion tên hôran diatithemenoi dia tên exagiston hêdonên: kathapax hoi thêludriai trichoplastai pantes eisin. all' hoi men epi tôn oikêmatôn antikrus houtoi. kaitoi nikan nomizousin, hôs tautêi malista to thêlu tou genous ekmimêsomenoi.
Notes:
See again at
kappa 2171. (This is not the Kotys of
kappa 2172 and
kappa 2173.)
[1] The source (and status) of this sentence is unknown, but cf. generally e.g.
Strabo 10.3.16;
Theocritus,
Idylls 6.40 with scholion. Kotys, a.k.a. Kottyto (see
Hesychius s.v., mentioning the Corinthians), was a Thracian goddess worshipped with nocturnal orgiastic rites. The adoption of her cult in Corinth is comparable on several counts, including date (420s BCE), with the adoption of the cult of Bendis in
Athens (
alpha 2572).
[2] An abridged quotation from
Synesius,
Encomium of Baldness 21.4 (quoted more fully at
kappa 2171), wherein the unglossed headword phrase "devotee of Kotys" occurs too (as it also does in his 44th letter); cf.
epsilon 1509,
epsilon 1798,
theta 335. For Kleisthenes see
kappa 1756,
kappa 1758; for Timarchos,
tau 595.
Translated by: William Hutton on 16 December 2003@17:39:30.
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