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Headword:
*ki/bdhlon
Adler number: kappa,1575
Translated headword: counterfeit, adulterated
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This is what they used to call a coin that is base or invalid, and forged. In the eleventh [book] of
Laws [sc.
Plato writes]: "let the slave take away for himself the counterfeit article."[1]
And the Pisidian [writes]: "at any rate, the one workman of two things is counterfeit, as the saying goes".[2]
Something is 'counterfeit' when it has a surface that seems elegant, but is badly off in its manner.[3]
[Derived] from "covering the obvious" (
keuthein to dêlon), or from "Chian" and "abominable" [
bdelukton); [taken] from history.[4]
"Croesus, not budging from the counterfeit reports about him, and cherishing and sheltering and protecting his ancestral kingdom."[5] "So slaves are a counterfeit evil, as became apparent in
Cleopatra."[6]
*ki/bdhlon: ou(/tws e)ka/loun to\ no/qon h)\ a)do/kimon no/misma, kai\ parakope/n. *no/mwn e(ndeka/tw|: o( me\n dou=los fere/sqw to\ kibdhleuqe/n. kai\ *pisi/dhs: pragma/twn pa/ntws du/o ki/bdhlo/s e)stin e)rga/ths ei(=s, w(s lo/gos. *ki/bdhlon me/n e)stin o(/tan e)/xh| e)pifa/neian w(s a)stei=on, h)=| de\ moxqhro\n tw=| tro/pw|. para\ to\ keu/qein to\ dh=lon, h)\ para\ to\ *xi=os kai\ to\ bdelukto/n: a)po\ i(stori/as. o( *kroi=sos kibdh/lois tai=s e)f' e(autou= a)koai=s me/nwn kai\ th\n basilei/an th\n patrw/|an qa/lpwn te kai\ periske/pwn kai\ periste/llwn. ki/bdhlon de\ a)/ra kako\n dou=loi w(s ei)si/n, e)n th=| *kleopa/tra| a)nefa/nh.
Notes:
cf. generally
kappa 1573,
kappa 1574.
[1]
Plato,
Laws 917D.
[2] George of
Pisidia,
Heraclias III fr.7.
[3] The gloss to this point also occurs in
Photius (
Lexicon kappa693 Theodoridis) and the
scholia to Lucian,
On How To Write History 59.9, apart from the Suda inserting the quotation from George.
[4] On the derivation of
ki/bdhlos from
*xi=os see
kappa 1573. The phrase
a)po\ i(stori/as "[taken] from history" appears in the
Etymologicum Magnum s.v.
ki/bdhlon.
[5]
Aelian fr. 70h Domingo-Forasté (67 Hercher).
[6]
Aelian fr. 61 Domingo-Forasté (58 Hercher).
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 19 November 2008@06:40:53.
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