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Headword: Krommua esthiein
Adler number: kappa,2464
Translated headword: to eat onions
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Equivalent to crying. For when Alyattes sent to Bias the sage [telling him] to make haste and come to him, "I", Bias said, "have something to tell Alyattes: eat onions".[1]
And Aristophanes [writes]: "then you had better not eat an onion".[2] Meaning you should wail even without onions. And another saying: "to smell onions",[3] in reference to those who are weeping.
Greek Original:
Krommua esthiein: ison tôi klaiein: Aluattêi gar pempsanti pros Bianta ton sophon, hina thatton par' auton hêkoi, egô, phêsin, Aluattêi keleuô krommua esthiein. kai Aristophanês: krommuon t' ar' ouk edêi. anti tou klausêi kai chôris krommuôn: anti tou dakruseis kai chôris krommuônos. kai hetera paroimia: krommuôn osphrainesthai, epi tôn klaiontôn.
Notes:
[1] From Diogenes Laertius 1.83. For Bias see beta 270.
[2] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 798, followed by comment from the scholia there (unhelpful: this is a retort to an offer of a kiss).
[3] Aristophanes, Frogs 654.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 September 2001@03:07:33.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 19 October 2003@16:56:00.
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