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Headword: *sko/luqron
Adler number: sigma,650
Translated headword: lowly
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] stingy, and illiberal.
Greek Original:
*sko/luqron: sknipo/n, kai\ a)neleu/qeron.
Note:
= Photius sigma357 Theodoridis, taken to come from Pausanias the Atticist (sigma18); and cf. already Hesychius sigma1076. The only literary attestation of the headword -- which is either masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective -- comes in a fragment of Teleclides' lost comedy Amphictyons (fr. 3 Kock and K.-A.), in a context in which just about any pejorative connotation would be appropriate. Several ancient authorities connect the adjective to the noun sko/luqron or skolu/qrion, meaning 'footstool' (cf. sigma 569), the idea presumably being that a person who is sko/luqros is low like a footstool; cf. Pausanias, Hesychius, Theognostus 34. The tenor of the present gloss is etymological, implying that sko/luqron is a combination of sknipo/n ('stingy') and a)neleu/qeron ('illiberal').
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; imagery; poetry
Translated by: William Hutton on 27 February 2014@00:57:46.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (coding, status) on 27 February 2014@02:04:58.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 27 February 2014@04:25:42.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 1 January 2015@09:30:10.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 6 March 2022@17:24:53.

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