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Headword:
Kleoboulinê
Adler number: kappa,1718
Translated headword: Kleobouline, Cleobuline
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A woman of
Lindos, daughter of Kleoboulos the sage.[1] She wrote poems, and riddles, and one puzzle that is recited about the year. This is its beginning: "one [is] the father, twelve [are] the sons, each of whom has thirty children."[2]
Kleoboulinê, Lindia, thugatêr Kleoboulou tou sophou. egrapsen epê, kai griphous, kai to aidomenon eis ton eniauton ainigma, hou hê archê: heis ho patêr, paides de duôdeka, tôn de hekastôi paides triakonta.
Notes:
[1] See
kappa 1719.
[2] cf.
Diogenes Laertius 1.89, where however this line-and-a-half of hexameter verse is attributed to Kleoboulos himself (and ends "twice thirty daughters, some white, the others black"; that is, days and nights counted separately).
Translated by: Susan Shapiro on 9 July 1999@14:57:18.
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