στηλοκόπας
From LSJ
οὕτω τι βαθὺ καὶ μυστηριῶδες ἡ σιγὴ καὶ νηφάλιον, ἡ δὲ μέθη λάλον → silence is something profound and mysterious and sober, but drunkenness chatters
English (LSJ)
ου, ὁ,
A tablet-glutton (formed like ματτυοκόπας (-ης ?)), epith. of Polemo, who went about copying the inscriptions on public monuments (στῆλαι), Herodic. ap. Ath.6.234d.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
στηλοκόπας: -ου, ὁ, ὁ τὰς στήλας κτυπῶν, ἐπίθετ. τοῦ Πολέμωνος, ὅστις περιήρχετο περιγράφων τὰς ἐπὶ δημοσίων μνημείων (στηλῶν) ἐπιγραφάς, Ἀθήν. 234D.
