[A nickname for] sons of the poet
Carcinus,[1] according to
Aristophanes; [the ones] whom he has also called knapsack-necks.[2] And [there is] a saying: 'happier than
Carcinus' spinning-tops'. Meaning more ill-starred: [i.e. 'happier' is said] in irony.[3]
Spiral-shell snails and maritime trumpet-shells [are] also [referred to as]
strobiloi.[4]
*stro/biloi: *karki/nou tou= poihtou= ui(oi/, w(s *)aristofa/nhs: ou(\s kai\ guliotraxh/lous ei)/rhke. kai\ paroimi/a: eu)daimone/steros tw=n *karki/nou strobi/lwn. a)nti\ tou= kakodaimone/steros: e)n ei)rwnei/a|. *stro/biloi kai\ oi( koxli/ai kai\ oi( qala/ssioi kh/rukes.
The headword is a noun in the masculine nominative (and vocative) plural, with diverse senses:
round ball,
spinning-top,
cyclone,
turn in music,
pirouette,
pine-cone, and
snail; cf.
epsilon 3402,
kappa 2289 (gloss),
sigma 1207; see generally LSJ s.v.
stro/bilos.
The entry is generated by
Aristophanes,
Peace 864 (web address 1), presented here as a 'saying', where the genitive plural form of the headword (
strobi/lwn) occurs. See the corresponding
scholia (=
scholia vetera), which the Suda generally follows (see further below).
[1] The elder
Carcinus (Karkinos) was a tragic dramatist active in
Athens in the second half of the fifth century BCE, and also on the board of generals for the year 432/431 (Develin no. 1576; OCD(4) s.v.
Carcinus(1) and
kappa 396; see generally
alpha 2802,
epsilon 3402,
sigma 1762 (gloss), and
epsilon 1147). His three sons were dancers (
spinning-tops), and they and their father
Xenocles are all mocked at
Aristophanes,
Peace 864 (web address 1) and 781-795 (web address 2);
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1497-1534 (web address 3); and
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1260 ff. (web address 4); see Dover, pp. 242-3.
[2] A
gulio/s is a
long-shaped wallet (LSJ s.v.), typically a long, woven soldier's pouch, knapsack, or kitbag for carrying food and sundry items; cf.
gamma 476,
kappa 396 (gloss),
kappa 2465 (gloss), and
sigma 1762 (gloss). The compound
guliotraxh/lous (accusative plural) is attested only here and at
epsilon 3402.
[3] From a scholion (
scholia vetera) to
Aristophanes,
Peace 864 (web address 1). [In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that mss AFV and M (after correction) read
ei)rwnei/ais:
ironies.]
[4] This additional material is also in other lexica; see
Photius sigma627 Theodoridis (first part) and other references there.
R. Develin, Athenian Officials 684-321 BC, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989
K.J. Dover, Aristophanes: Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
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