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Headword:
*)/ai+dos
kunh=
Adler number: alpha,676
Translated headword: Hades' dog-skin [helmet]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "take for my sake the shadow-shaggy Hades helmet from Hieronymos." The proverb[1] was [sc. originally] said about those who are invisible. But now about those who grow their hair exceedingly long. For this Hieronymos was a melic and tragic poet [who was] deviant and unkempt, because he wrote roles that were too sentimental and used fearful masks; he seemed to be (?)applauded.[2] He was mocked for growing his hair all long: wherefore comedically [
Aristophanes] said he is Hades' dog-skin, since he has long hair.
Greek Original:*)/ai+dos kunh=: *)aristofa/nhs: la/be d' e)mou= g' e(/neka par' *(ierwnu/mou skotodasupukno/trixa th\n *)/ai+dos kunh=n. e)pi\ tw=n a)fanw=n ei)/rhtai h( paroimi/a. nu=n de\ e)pi\ tw=n a)/gan komw/ntwn. ou(=tos ga\r o( *(ierw/numos melw=n h)=n poihth\s kai\ tragw|do\s a)nw/malos kai\ a)noikono/mhtos, dia\ to\ a)/gan e)mpaqei=s gra/fein u(poqe/seis kai\ foberoi=s proswpei/ois xrh=sqai: e)do/kei krotei=sqai. e)kwmw|dei=to de\ w(s pa/nu komw=n: dio/per *)/ai+dos kunh=n e)/fh au)to\n kwmw|dikw=s, w(s koureiw=nta.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 388-390 (web address 1 below), with
scholia. Modern editors prefer
tin to the transmitted
th\n, i.e. "a" rather than "the" helmet.)
On Hieronymos son of Xenophantes see also
kappa 1768, where he is given similar attributes but, apparently in error, under the headword Kleitos (Clitus). He apparently also wrote comedies and dithyrambs.
[1] See under
alpha 675.
[2] The sense of the multi-meaning verb
krotei=sqai here is unclear.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; clothing; comedy; daily life; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery; military affairs; mythology; poetry; proverbs; stagecraft; trade and manufacture; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 17 March 2001@23:54:36.
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