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Headword:
Eloidoroumetha
Adler number: epsilon,917
Translated headword: we were vituperating
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] we were engaging in strife, such that out of competitiveness we turned to vituperation.
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "we were vituperating each other over the name."[1]
Agathias [writes]: "and indeed all were vituperating Narses, calling him a blowhard and a scoundrel, and in fact saying that he was a violent person and a murderer, and that otherwise his reputation for always being pious and subservient to the divine was nothing but show."[2]
Eloidoroumetha: estasiazomen, hôs hupo tês philoneikias es loidorias trapênai. Aristophanês Nephelais: peri tounomatos eloidoroumetha. Agathias: kai dê tôi Narsêi pantes eloidorounto alazona te apokalountes kai atasthalon, kai ergôi men auton einai legontes biaion te kai miaiphonon, tên de tou eusebein aei kai to theion therapeuein doxan allôs autôi kekompseusthai.
Notes:
For the headword verb see the cross-references under
epsilon 916.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 62 (web address 1), with comments from the
scholia thereto.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 25 Keydell (1.12 p. 40 Niebuhr), the citizens of
Luca (modern-day
Lucca, in central Italy) react to the Byzantine general Narses's feigned execution of a group of Lucchesi hostages during the Gothic War (535-554 CE); cf. Frendo (20). For Narses see
nu 42. See also
alpha 457,
alpha 1709, and
mu 707 for further context.
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; military affairs; politics; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 9 February 2007@11:29:02.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 11 February 2007@04:35:52.
Catharine Roth (adjusted link) on 11 February 2007@16:42:59.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 15 August 2012@04:58:45.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@00:52:46.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 18 October 2023@23:32:27.
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