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Headword:
*xairefw=n
Adler number: chi,160
Translated headword: Chairephon, Chairephon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A name] applied to pale and withered men. And [there is] a saying: 'you will differ in no way from Chairephon'.[1] Inasmuch as he has been immersed in wisdom. Hence he was also called Bat.[2]
Greek Original:*xairefw=n: e)pi\ tw=n w)xrw=n kai\ i)sxnw=n. kai\ paroimi/a: ou)de\n dioi/seis *xairefw=ntos. a(/te sofi/a| suntethkw/s. o(/qen kai\ *nukteri\s e)kalei=to.
Notes:
For Chairephon see also
chi 158,
chi 159. The present entry draws on the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 503, here quoted inaccurately.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 503; more fully at
delta 1282.
[2] cf.
nu 579. (The connection is not with the immediately preceding phrase but with the pallidness.) For Chairephon as Bat (Nukteris) see e.g.
Aristophanes,
Birds 1292-1299 and 1554-1564.
Translated by: Joseph Wrightson on 29 April 2000@17:23:58.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes; added keywords; cosmetics) on 2 July 2002@06:32:22.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2; another keyword; cosmetics) on 7 August 2011@10:11:47.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 10 November 2013@05:34:23.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 22 April 2023@19:15:47.
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