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Appendix A
rite1. The resultant figure took the popular fancy, and moralists soon2 discovered
a deep significance in the contrast between the front hair and the back, a signi-
ficance hardly intended by the sculptor. A further aptitude was perhaps found3
in the fact that the name Kairos is related to the verb ketro, ' I shave4.'
Symbolism, once introduced, grew apace. Gems of the Hellenistic age5,
Fig. 796. Fig. 798. Fig. 797.
when Eros and Psyche were prime favourites6, added wings on the shoulders
(fig. 796 ff.) and a butterfly on the hand (fig. 796 f.). The globe beneath the foot7
(fig. 798) and the balance suspended in the air (fig. 796 f.) or poised on the razor's
edge (fig. 798), are attributes appropriate to divinities of fate such as Nike8 and
1 Supra i. 23 n. 6.
2 First in Poseidippos' epigram {Anth. Pal. 16. 275. 7 ff.).
3 Cp. Poll. 2. 33 aKaprjs Kaipos and context.
4 So P. Persson in the Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Sprachforschung 1895 xxxiii. 288
(Kaipos<Kap-Lo-). Dr Giles too told me (Oct. 22, 1911) that, starting from the root of
tceipu in the weak grade /cp-, we could assume kr-io-s'^ Kap-w-s> Kaipos, cp. kkr-io>xaP'^
5 (a) Convex cornelian in the collection of C. Newton-Robinson. Kairos, bearded,
with forelock and bald head, wings on shoulders and heels, steps towards the right, hold-
ing a butterfly in his right hand and supporting with his left the depressed pan of a balance
suspended before him (Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i pi. 43, 49 ( = my fig. 796), ii. 207).
(/;) Gem with the design of (a) reversed (Furtwangler Ant. Genwnen i pi. 43, 51, ii.
208). This gem appears to be identical with (b').
(/>') Gem from the Blacas collection. 'Kairos, bearded, with wings on shoulders and
on heels, holding out pair of scales, and a butterfly ' (B>-it. Mus. Cat. Gems p. 143 no. 1199.
%■ 797 is from a cast kindly furnished by Mr A. H. Smith).
(<•) Convex gem in an unknown collection. Kairos, bearded, with wings on shoulders
and heels, runs towards the right. His right foot rests on a ball. His right hand carries
a razor, on the edge of which is poised a balance. His left hand is held beneath one of
its pans (Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i pi. 43, 50, ii. 207 f.). This gem appears to be
identical with (c').
{c') Convex onyx from the Blacas collection. ' Kairos, bald on back of head, bearded,
wings on shoulders and heels ; runs to r. [with right foot on ball], holding out scales in
front [balanced on razor], but without butterfly' [Brit. Mus. Cat. Gems p. 143 no. 1200.
My fig. 798 is from a cast kindly furnished by Mr A. H. Smith).
G Infra Append. G sub fin. and supra p. 645 n. 4.
7 Kallistrat. eKfpp&creis 6. 1—4 (' On the statue of Kairos at Sikyon') states that the
figure wrought by Lysippos for the Sicyonians was a bronze boy in the bloom of youth,
for the most part resembling Dionysos, but with unusual hair—long in front and at the
sides, free of tresses at the back—and with winged heels set on a sphere. Nothing is said
of razor or scales.
8 F. Studniczka Die Siegesgoettin Leipzig 1898 p. 20 pi. 4, 23, 26 f. See also supra
i. 48 f. figs. 20, 22.
Appendix A
rite1. The resultant figure took the popular fancy, and moralists soon2 discovered
a deep significance in the contrast between the front hair and the back, a signi-
ficance hardly intended by the sculptor. A further aptitude was perhaps found3
in the fact that the name Kairos is related to the verb ketro, ' I shave4.'
Symbolism, once introduced, grew apace. Gems of the Hellenistic age5,
Fig. 796. Fig. 798. Fig. 797.
when Eros and Psyche were prime favourites6, added wings on the shoulders
(fig. 796 ff.) and a butterfly on the hand (fig. 796 f.). The globe beneath the foot7
(fig. 798) and the balance suspended in the air (fig. 796 f.) or poised on the razor's
edge (fig. 798), are attributes appropriate to divinities of fate such as Nike8 and
1 Supra i. 23 n. 6.
2 First in Poseidippos' epigram {Anth. Pal. 16. 275. 7 ff.).
3 Cp. Poll. 2. 33 aKaprjs Kaipos and context.
4 So P. Persson in the Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Sprachforschung 1895 xxxiii. 288
(Kaipos<Kap-Lo-). Dr Giles too told me (Oct. 22, 1911) that, starting from the root of
tceipu in the weak grade /cp-, we could assume kr-io-s'^ Kap-w-s> Kaipos, cp. kkr-io>xaP'^
5 (a) Convex cornelian in the collection of C. Newton-Robinson. Kairos, bearded,
with forelock and bald head, wings on shoulders and heels, steps towards the right, hold-
ing a butterfly in his right hand and supporting with his left the depressed pan of a balance
suspended before him (Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i pi. 43, 49 ( = my fig. 796), ii. 207).
(/;) Gem with the design of (a) reversed (Furtwangler Ant. Genwnen i pi. 43, 51, ii.
208). This gem appears to be identical with (b').
(/>') Gem from the Blacas collection. 'Kairos, bearded, with wings on shoulders and
on heels, holding out pair of scales, and a butterfly ' (B>-it. Mus. Cat. Gems p. 143 no. 1199.
%■ 797 is from a cast kindly furnished by Mr A. H. Smith).
(<•) Convex gem in an unknown collection. Kairos, bearded, with wings on shoulders
and heels, runs towards the right. His right foot rests on a ball. His right hand carries
a razor, on the edge of which is poised a balance. His left hand is held beneath one of
its pans (Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i pi. 43, 50, ii. 207 f.). This gem appears to be
identical with (c').
{c') Convex onyx from the Blacas collection. ' Kairos, bald on back of head, bearded,
wings on shoulders and heels ; runs to r. [with right foot on ball], holding out scales in
front [balanced on razor], but without butterfly' [Brit. Mus. Cat. Gems p. 143 no. 1200.
My fig. 798 is from a cast kindly furnished by Mr A. H. Smith).
G Infra Append. G sub fin. and supra p. 645 n. 4.
7 Kallistrat. eKfpp&creis 6. 1—4 (' On the statue of Kairos at Sikyon') states that the
figure wrought by Lysippos for the Sicyonians was a bronze boy in the bloom of youth,
for the most part resembling Dionysos, but with unusual hair—long in front and at the
sides, free of tresses at the back—and with winged heels set on a sphere. Nothing is said
of razor or scales.
8 F. Studniczka Die Siegesgoettin Leipzig 1898 p. 20 pi. 4, 23, 26 f. See also supra
i. 48 f. figs. 20, 22.