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Headword:
*khru/los
Adler number: kappa,1549
Translated headword: kerulos, kerylos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the male [h]alcyon,[1] which dies in intercourse. Euphronios reports that the Dorians say "would that, would that I were a
khru/los";[2] but the Attic-speakers [call it]
keiru/los. When the males grow old the females support them with their wings. And perhaps [the word] is formed from the [verb]
kei/rein ["to cut the hair"], for Sporgilos was a barber.
Plato mentions him in
Sophists: "Sporgilos' barbershop, most hateful shack."[3]
*khru/los: o( a)/rrhn a)lkuw/n, o(\s e)n tai=s sunousi/ais a)poqnh/skei. *eu)fro/nio/s fhsi tou\s *dwriei=s le/gein, ba/le de/, ba/le, khru/los ei)/hn: tou\s de\ *)attikou\s keiru/lon. tou\s de\ a)/rrenas ghra/skontas ai( qh/leiai basta/zousi toi=s pteroi=s. kai\ mh/pote para\ to\ kei/rein e)sxhma/tistai. o( ga\r *sporgi/los h)=n koureu/s. mnhmoneu/ei au)tou= *pla/twn e)n *sofistai=s: to\ *sporgi/lou kourei=on, e)/xqiston te/gos.
Notes:
From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Birds 299 (web address 1); cf.
Photius,
Lexicon kappa522 Theodoridis (s.v.
kei/ruloi, from
Pausanias the Atticist), and other references there.
[1] The
kerulos was a mythical sea-bird, identified with the
alkyon (the Mediterranean kingfisher,
Alcedo ispida,
alpha 1300) or with the male of this species.
[2] Part of
Alcman fr. 26. For this idiom cf.
beta 70.
[3]
Plato Comicus fr. 135 Kock (144 Kassel-Austin), quoted again at
sigma 964. For 'shack' see
tau 216.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 November 2008@00:23:17.
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