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Headword: Βάκηλος
Adler number: beta,46
Translated headword: Bakêlos
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
A big man, but ignorant and womanish.[1]
Bakêlos: a eunuch, a castrated man.[2]
Also a proverb: "you are a bakêlos", [brought] against those who are frivolous and unmanly. For such [are] castrated men.[3]
Greek Original:
Βάκηλος: μέγας μὲν, ἀνόητος δὲ καὶ γυναικώδης. Βάκηλος, εὐνοῦχος, ἀπόκοπος. καὶ παροιμία: Βάκηλος εἶ, κατὰ τῶν ἐκλύτων καὶ ἀνάνδρων. τοιοῦτοι γὰρ οἱ ἀπόκοποι.
Notes:
A bakêlos was a eunuch priest in the service of Cybele (LSJ s.v., web address 1). See also gamma 41.
[1] Cf. Etymologicum Magnum 185.18.
[2] Cf. Lexicon Ambrosianum 9.
[3] Menander fr.477 Kock, Alexis fr.100 Kock; cf. Zenobius 2.62.
Reference:
Philologus Supplement 6.261, n. 295
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; proverbs; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 April 2002@11:54:21.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, notes) on 9 September 2002@21:14:28.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 10 September 2002@03:04:46.
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