Humanitext Reader

Theophrastus · Fragments §110.1

The Beauty of the Women of Chalcis in Hesiod

Passage 115 of 196 · Greek

Summary

It records that Hesiod called Chalcis in Euboea a land of beautiful women, and that Theophrastus also mentioned the beauty of the women there.

§110.1Fr. 110 Ἡσίοδος ἐν τρίτῳ Μελαμποδίας τὴν ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ Χαλκίδα καλλιγύναικα εἶπεν. Εὐπρεπεῖς γὰρ αὐτόθι γυναῖκες, ὡς καὶ Θ. εἴρηκε.
Fr. 110 Hesiod, in the third book of the Melampodia, called Chalcis in Euboea "famous for beautiful women." For the women there are beautiful, as Theophrastus also has said.

Notes

  1. 110.1καλλιγύναικα — A predicative accusative complement to τὴν ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ Χαλκίδα, which is the object of the verb εἶπεν. It is the accusative feminine singular of the adjective καλλιγύναιξ (having beautiful women), forming a double accusative construction: "called Chalcis... (a place) of beautiful women."
  2. 110.1Εὐπρεπεῖς γὰρ αὐτόθι γυναῖκες — A nominal clause with the omission of the existential verb εἰσίν. εὐπρεπεῖς is a nominative feminine plural adjective acting as the predicate of the subject γυναῖκες.

Cite this passage

Theophrastus, Fragments §110.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg010x09.humanitext-grc1:110.1

Please note the AI-draft status of the translation and the date accessed.

Translation, notes and summary are AI-generated drafts, revised through reader feedback.