InGreek mythology,Koalemos (Ancient Greek: Κοάλεμος) was the personification ofstupidity, mentioned once byAristophanes,^[1] and being found also inParallel Lives byPlutarch.^[2] Coalemus is the Latin spelling of the name.

Otherwise, the word κοάλεμος was used in the sense of "stupid person" or also "blockhead".^[3]

An ancientfalse etymology derivesκοάλεμος fromκοέω (koeō) "perceive" andἡλεός (ēleos) "distraught, crazed".^[4] Thisetymology is not established, however.^[5]

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• A Greek-English Lexicon compiled by H. G. Liddel and R. Scott. tenth edition with a revised supplement. – Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. - p. 966, under κοάλεμος
• Aristophanes,Knights fromThe Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Aristophanes,Aristophanes Comoediae edited by F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, vol. 1. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1907.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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