Type 5405
(formerly typ/3435)

Παράγει τινὰ Κλέωνα, τὸν καλούμενον
Παφλαγόνα, κἄτι βυρσοπώλην, πικρότατα,
κατεσθίοντά πως τὰ κοινὰ χρήματα,
καὶ παραλογισμῷ διαφέροντ’ ἐρρωμένως
ἀλλαντοπώλην, εὐθέως τε σκατοφάγον,
πεισθέντ᾽ ἐπιτίθεσθαι σὺν ἱππεῦσίν τισιν,
ἐν τῷ χορῷ παροῦσι, τῇ τῶν πραγμάτων
ἀρχῇ, Κλέωνός τ’ ἐν μέσῳ κατηγορεῖν.
Ἐγένετο τοῦτ’· ἐξέπεσεν ὁ Κλέων παγκάκως,
ὁ δὲ σκατοφάγος ἔτυχε προεδρίας καλῆς.
Title(s) Ἀριστοφάνους γραμματικοῦ
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Aristophanes of Byzantium
Metre(s) Iambic trimeter
Subject(s) Aristophanes (445 BC - 388 BC)
Tag(s)
Critical Notes 4 καὶ παραλογισμῷ Wilson ] κἀν παραλογισμοῖς Cougny
6 πεισθέντ᾽ ἐπιτίθεσθαι Wilson ] πεισθέντα τ' ἐπιθέσθαι Cougny
7 ἐν τῷ χορῷ Wilson ] τοῖς ἐν χορῷ Cougny
Translation(s) Inducit quemdam Cleonem, vocatum
Paphlagonem, et amplius coriorum-venditorem acerrime
vorantem quodam-modo publica bona:
et praestigiis praestantem valde
isiciorum-venditorem, statimque merdivorum,
impulsumque ad invadendum cum equitibus quibusdam,
qui in choro intersunt, rerum
principatum, Cleonemque in medio accusandum.
Id factum est: excidit miserrime Cleon;
et merdivorus assecutus est pulcrum sedis-honorem.
Language
Latin
Source(s)
E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 304
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. III.88
Hypothesis to Aristophanes' Knights.
Bibliography
Number of verses 10
Occurrence(s) [22287] Παράγει τινὰ κλέωνα τὸν καλούμενον [15th c.]
VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 475 (coll. 825) [15th c.] (f. 64v)
(10 verses)
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Identification
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Last modified: 2019-06-26.