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σμικρίνης

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Ποιητὴς, ὁπόταν ἐν τῷ τρίποδι τῆς Μούσης καθίζηται, τότε οὐκ ἔμφρων ἐστίν → Whenever a poet is seated on the Muses' tripod, he is not in his senses

Plato, Laws, 719c

German (Pape)

[Seite 911] ὁ, ein kleinlich Geiziger, ein Filz, Knicker; Charactername des Geizhalses in der neuen griech. Comödie, wie Harpagon in der französischen; Jac. lect. Stob. p. 97; Mein. Menandr. p. 64. 565.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

σμῑκρίνης: [κρῐ], ου, ὁ, ὁ περὶ σμικρῶν σκεπτόμενος, μικρολόγος, φιλάργυρος· κεῖται δὲ ὡς προσηγορικὸν ὄνομα ἐν τῇ νέᾳ κωμῳδίᾳ ὡς ἐν τῇ Γαλλικῇ τὸ Harpagon, Μένανδρ. ἐν «Ἀσπίδι» 3, «Ἐπιτρ.» 5, πρβλ. Ἀλκίφρ. 3. 43.