Lexicographic entries

καταστωμύλλομαι
(Phryn. PS 78.25–6)

A. Main sources

(1) Phryn. PS 78.25–6: κατεστωμυλμένος <ἄνθρωπος>· ὁ πολλῇ στωμυλίᾳ χρώμενος.

ἄνθρωπος supplied by de Borries.

κατεστωμυλμένος <ἄνθρωπος> (‘chattering man’, cf. C.1): One who employs much small talk.

B. Other erudite sources

(1) Schol. (Tz.) Ar. Ra. 1060: κατεστωμυλμένε] φλύαρε.

κατεστωμυλμένε (voc. sing., cf. C.1): Babbler.

C. Loci classici, other relevant texts

(1) Ar. Ra. 1160–1:
oὐ δῆτα τοῦτό γ’, ὦ κατεστωμυλμένε
ἄνθρωπε, ταὔτ’ ἔστ’, ἀλλ’ ἄριστ’ ἐπῶν ἔχον.

This is not the same thing, you chattering man! But [the expression] has excellent words.

(2) Ar. Th. 461–4:
oἷα κατεστωμύλατο
οὐκ ἄκαιρα, φρένας ἔχουσα
καὶ πολύπλοκον νόημ’, οὐδ’
ἀσύνετ’, ἀλλὰ πιθανὰ πάντα.

Those things she chattered on about were not inopportune, had good sense and close-woven thought, they were not silly, but wholly convincing.

D. General commentary

This laconic entry in the epitome of the PS is likely to have originally addressed the simplex στωμύλλω ‘to chatter’ (attested in, e.g., Ar. Nu. 1003, and later used sparingly and mostly by Atticising authors) and its prefixed intensive formation καταστωμύλλομαι ‘to chatter on and on’ (attested only twice in Aristophanes, and later only in Eusebius, Michael Choniates, and in the Progymnasmata by Theodore Hexapterygus). Therefore, this might have been one of the several entries of the PS in which Phrynichus addressed rarer prefixed forms as more original alternatives to simplicia (see, e.g., entries ἀνακραγεῖν and καταριστάω, and Monaco, forthcoming).

E. Byzantine and Modern Greek commentary

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F. Commentary on individual texts and occurrences

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Bibliography

Monaco, C. (forthcoming). ‘Comic Compounds or Hapax Legomena?’. Favi, F.; Pellettieri, A.; Tribulato, O. (eds.), New Approaches to Phrynichus’ Praeparatio sophistica. Berlin, Boston.

CITE THIS

Olga Tribulato, 'καταστωμύλλομαι (Phryn. PS 78.25–6)', in Olga Tribulato (ed.), Digital Encyclopedia of Atticism. With the assistance of E. N. Merisio.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30687/DEA/2974-8240/2024/01/006