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Headword:
*ku/kloi
Adler number: kappa,2654
Translated headword: zones, circles
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Zones] in the sky are five: Arctic, which is always visible; Winter; summer Tropic; Equatorial; invisible Antarctic. They are called 'parallels', because they do not incline towards one another; they are inscribed, however, about the same center. But the Zodiac is oblique, as responsible to the parallels.[1]
'Circles' is what places were called in which people were sold; they were given this name because those who are being sold stand in a circle.[2]
Greek Original:*ku/kloi e)n tw=| ou)ranw=| pe/nte: *)arktiko/s, o( a)ei\ faino/menos, *xeimerino/s, *tropiko\s qerino/s, *)ishmerino/s, *)antarktiko\s a)fanh/s. le/gontai de\ para/llhloi, kaqo/ti ou) sunneu/ousin ei)s a)llh/lous: gra/fontai me/ntoi peri\ to\ au)to\ ke/ntron. o( de\ *zwdiako\s loco/s e)stin, w(s ai)/tios toi=s parallh/lois. *ku/kloi e)kalou=nto oi( to/poi, e)n oi(=s e)pwlou=nto/ tines: w)noma/sqhsan de\ a)po\ tou= ku/klw| periesta/nai tou\s pwloume/nous.
Notes:
[1] Stoic definitions from
Diogenes Laertius 7.155. The final phrase as given by the Suda appears more intelligibly in D.L.: "crossing the parallels",
e)piw\n tou\s parallh/lous. Cf.
zeta 137.
[2] This additional paragraph reproduces Harpokration s.v., where
Dinarchus (fr. XI.3 Conomis) and
Menander (fr. 171 Koerte, now 150 Kassel-Austin) are cited for the usage.
Translated by: William Hutton on 16 October 2001@17:29:07.
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