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Headword:
*karki/nou
poih/mata
Adler number: kappa,397
Translated headword: Karkinos' poems, Carcinus' poems
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Menander in
False Heracles [sc. uses the phrase].[1] Meaning riddling [ones]. For Karkinos, when depicting Orestes [departing?] from
Ilion [and] compelled to admit that he had killed his mother, made him reply in riddles.[2]
Greek Original:*karki/nou poih/mata: *me/nandros *yeudhraklei=. a)nti\ tou= ai)nigmatw/dh. o( ga\r *karki/nos *)ore/sthn a)po\ *)ili/ou a)nagkazo/menon o(mologh=sai o(/ti e)mhtrokto/nhsen, e)poi/hse di' ai)nigma/twn a)pokrino/menon.
Notes:
Also in
Photius (
Lexicon kappa193 Theodoridis).
For Karkinos see already
kappa 396.
[1]
Menander fr. 525 Kock (415 K.-A.).
[2] Orestes (
omicron 537,
omicron 538) had no business to be '[departing] from
Ilion' (
Troy), so emendation is necessary, e.g. 'compelled by Menelaos' (Hemsterhuys). Theodoridis notes other possibilities.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 July 2006@07:23:16.
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