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Headword: *(ws *puqw/de i)e/nai boulo/menoi *boiwtou\s di/odon ai)tou/meqa
Adler number: omega,242
Translated headword: as wanting to go to Pytho we ask the Boeotians for safe passage
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
They say that Boeotia lies between Pytho [= Delphi] and Attica, and it is not possible for Athenians to leave for Pytho without passing through Boeotia. When an army goes through, they ask for permission to pass through. So Aristophanes says this: "as we ask the Boeotians for safe passage, likewise when men sacrifice to the gods, unless the gods pay a toll to us [birds], you will not let the smoke of the thigh-pieces pass through the foreign city and the empty space." Meaning you will not carry [it] through, you will not send [it] through.
Greek Original:
*(ws *puqw/de i)e/nai boulo/menoi *boiwtou\s di/odon ai)tou/meqa: fasi\ metacu\ th=s *puqou=s kai\ th=s *)attikh=s ei)=nai th\n *boiwti/an, kai\ ou)x oi(=o/n te ei)=nai *)aqhnai/ous ei)s *puqw\ a)pelqei=n, ei) mh\ pare/lqwsi *boiwti/an. o(/tan de\ stra/teuma dia/gh|, di/odon h)/|toun. tou=to ou)=n fhsin *)aristofa/nhs: w(/sper h(mei=s di/odon ai)tou=men *boiwtou/s, ou(/tws o(/tan qu/swsin a)/nqrwpoi toi=s qeoi=s, h)\n mh\ fo/ron fe/rwsin h(mi=n oi( qeoi/, dia\ th=s po/lews th=s a)llotri/as kai\ tou= xa/ous tw=n mhri/wn th\n kni/ssan ou) diafrh/sete. a)nti\ tou= ou) diaforh/sete, ou) diape/myesqe.
Note:
Aristophanes, Birds 188-193 (web address 1), with scholia on 189 and 193. See also delta 835, omicron 824, chi 83.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; ethics; food; geography; military affairs; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 September 2005@22:34:13.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 12 September 2005@03:34:07.
David Whitehead on 8 August 2011@09:49:47.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, upgraded link) on 8 August 2011@16:32:31.
David Whitehead on 3 November 2013@08:08:14.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 5 February 2014@05:52:09.

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