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Headword:
Aisios
Adler number: alphaiota,322
Translated headword: appropriate, right
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one which is proper, true.[1]
Menander [writes]: "but fortune did not breathe upon them rightly: for those doing wrong deliberately were not removed."[2]
And elsewhere: "and this would not seem right for a king/emperor."[3]
[Note] that
Demosthenes joined in literary studies with Aision the Athenian.[4]
Aisios: ho kathêkôn, alêthês. Menandros: all' ouk aisiôs autois apepneusen hê tuchê: hoi gar ethelokakountes ouch hupestalêsan. kai authis: kai touto ouk aision doxai an basilei. hoti Dêmosthenês sunephilologêsen Aisiôni tôi Athênaiôi.
Notes:
[1] Here in the masculine. For the neuter see already
alphaiota 321.
[2]
Menander Protector fr. 32 Blockley (244-245). Adler associated this fragment with
epsilon 304.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
[4] Quoted from
delta 454. (Repeated here simply because of the verbal echo in the name.)
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; rhetoric
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝ on 20 March 2003@08:05:12.
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