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Headword:
Chairis
Adler number: chi,172
Translated headword: Chairis, Chaeris, Khairis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A kithara-player.[1]
Pherecrates, too, mentions him in
Savages: "'tell me, who was the worst kithara-player?' 'Peisoumeles was after Meles... Sit still. I know. It was Chairis.'" And [there was] another [Chairis] whom
Cratinus mentions in
Nemesis.[3]
Chairis: kitharôidos. mnêmoneuei de autou kai Pherekratês en Agrois: pher' idô, kitharôidos tis kakistos egeneto; Peisoumelês meta Melêtos ên. ech' atremas. eg'ôida. Chairis esti. kai heteros, hou mnêmoneuei Kratinos en Nemesei.
Notes:
None of the figures mentioned in this gloss are to be equated with the Chairis, more familiar to scholars, who was a pupil of
Aristarchus and wrote works on
Homer,
Pindar, and
Aristophanes and a treatise on grammar (all lost). Compare, rather,
chi 171.
[1] Taken from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 858 (where a reference to Chairis appears: web address 1 below).
[2]
Pherecrates fr. 6 Kock (and K.-A.).
[3]
Cratinus fr. 118 Kock, now 126 K.-A.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; meter and music
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 March 2008@16:38:55.
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