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Headword: Dêmagôgikos
Adler number: delta,412
Translated headword: demagogue-like, like a demagogue
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] general-like. Polybius [writes]: "Molpagoras, a man competent to speak and act, but by choice demagogue-like and greedy; having secured autocratic power for himself he was killed by certain people".[1]
And elsewhere: "for demagogy is not a characteristic of a man of culture or one decent in behaviour but [belongs] to the ignorant and disgusting". Aristophanes says [this].[2]
Greek Original:
Dêmagôgikos: stratêgikos. Polubios: Molpagoras, anêr legein kai prattein hikanos, kata de tên hairesin dêmagôgikos kai pleonektês: hos monarchikên exousian heautôi peripoiêsamenos anêirethê para tinôn. kai authis: hê dêmagôgia gar ou pros mousikou estin andros oude chrêstou tous tropous, all' eis amathê kai bdeluron. Aristophanês phêsi.
Notes:
cf. generally delta 411, delta 413.
[1] An abbreviated version of Polybius 15.21.1-2. See mu 1204 and the notes there.
[2] Aristophanes, Knights 191-3 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 July 2001@03:40:20.
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