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Headword:
Encheleis
thêrômenos
Adler number: epsilon,174
Translated headword: (someone) hunting eels
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In reference to those stirring up trouble for their own benefit. For whenever the water is still, they catch nothing; but when they stir up the water above and below, they take and catch [eels]. Thus also these men [are] stirring up the city.
Greek Original:Encheleis thêrômenos: epi tôn dia kerdos idion tarachas poiountôn. hotan gar to hudôr katastêi, ouden lambanousin: hote de anô kai katô to hudôr taraxousin, hairousi kai lambanousin. houtô kai houtoi tarattontes tên polin.
Notes:
From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Knights 865 (where a plural version of the present headword phrase occurs: web address 1).
For eels see also
epsilon 175.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; imagery; politics; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 January 2006@21:47:23.
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