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Aporô
Adler number: alpha,3506
Translated headword: I puzzle (and) I write (and) I de-hair myself (and) I do sums looking away into the countryside
Vetting Status: high
Translation: I write [gra/fw] means I doodle and I draw likenesses in the dirt, I sketch some games with my finger and suchlike. And "I de-hair myself" [parati/llomai] [means] I pluck hairs from my nostrils or from my armpits. Those who are waiting for something do all such things, passing the time at a loss and in lack of means, not happening upon the expected event. For when they dispose themselves by themselves, they wander in mind and draw. They look away into the countryside, eager to be there.
Greek Original:Aporô, graphô, paratillomai, logizomai, apoblepôn eis ton agron: graphô men anti tou katagraphô kai zôgraphô epi tês gês, xuô tôi daktulôi kai tini toioutôi paidias tinas. paratillomai de tas ek tôn muktêrôn tillô trichas ê tôn maschalôn. tauta de panta poiousin hoi prosdechomenoi men ti, ton de chronon dapanôntes eis aporias kai amêchanias, mê tunchanontes tou prosdokômenou logismou. hote gar autoi eph' heautôn diatithentai, aluontes epigraphousin. eis ton agron de apoblepousin epithumountes en autôi einai.
Notes:
The long headword phrase quotes
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 31-32 (web address 1 below); comment from the
scholia there follows. The evacuated yokel Dikaiopolis is describing what he does while waiting for meetings of the Athenian Assembly to begin.
cf.
gamma 441 and
pi 467.
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; geography; medicine
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 October 2001@20:07:51.
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