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Melanthios
Adler number: mu,457
Translated headword: Melanthios, Melanthius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Melanthios/Melanthios] and Morsimos/Morsimus:
Aristophanes speaks of them as follows: "both gorgons, devourers of dainties, gluttons for skate, harpies, fuckers of old whores, disgusting characters, arm-pits smelling like he-goats, destroyers of fish. After you have spat a big fat gob on them, Muse and goddess, frolic together with me at the feast".[1] 'Gorgons', [meaning] fearsome in their gluttony ; a 'skate' [is] a kind of fish; 'harpies' [meaning] gobblers of fish, for Harpies [are] rapacious divinities; keeping the old women away from the fish so they will not go to market; or those who lie with old women, for whores [are called]
soba/des;[2] and
kataxremyame/nh [meaning] having spat.
Greek Original:Melanthios kai Morsimos: legei Aristophanês peri autôn houtôs: amphô Gorgones opsophagoi, batidoskopoi, harpuiai, graosobai, miaroi, tragomaschaloi, ichthuolumai: hôn katachrempsamenê mega kai platu mousa kai thea met' emou xumpaize tên heortên. Gorgones, phoberoi es gastrimargian: batis de eidos ichthuos: harpuiai de harpages tôn ichthuôn: Harpuiai gar harpaktikoi daimones: apo tôn ichthuôn aposobountes tas graïdas, hôs mê agorazein: ê graïsi sunkoimômenoi: sobades gar hai pornai: katachrempsamenê de kataptusasa.
Notes:
References:
Diehl, 'Morsimos' in RE 16 cols.318-319.
Modrze, 'Melanthios' in RE 16.1 cols.428-429.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; mythology; poetry; tragedy; women; zoology
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 10 January 2003@02:20:13.
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