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Headword: Dionusiôn skômmata
Adler number: delta,1183
Translated headword: insults of the Dionysia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[...] once assailing and insulting [them] with the insults from the Dionysia [...]."[1]
The Dionysia was a festival.[2]
"[Someone] who looking and gazing with shifty eyes hides one thing in his mind and speaks another"; "whose mouth overflowed with curses and bitterness and deceit"; "whom justice, justly judging, adjudicated against"; "who happened to be -- as the poet says -- a 'useless weight on the earth'".[3] "But he has been tossed to the crows and is gone unseen, unheard of, shown to be twistier than a hinge in matters of business; away with him! off with him! that triple-stinker who won't even be lauded at his funeral feast, who messes everything up and throws everything into chaos and confusion, that Cyclopean monster"; "that hateful-looking and lightning-struck one who chooses to live for wealth, paying no heed to the will of the god nor trembling at inevitable retribution"; "he who is a constant altar-filcher and is boastfully stingy, doggier than dogs and more troublesome than demons."[4]
Greek Original:
Dionusiôn skômmata. pote men ballôn kai skôptôn tois ek Dionusiôn skômmasin. heortê de ên ta Dionusia. hos loxa blepôn kai dedorkôs allo men ekeuthe phresin, allo de ephasken: hou aras kai pikrias kai dolou to stoma egemen: hon endikôs hê dikê dikasasa katedikasen: hos kata ton poiêtên etôsion achthos arourês etunchanen ôn. all' es korakas beblêtai kai oichetai aïstos, apustos, giglumou polustrophôteros en tois prakteois apodeiknumenos, erresthô, oichesthô, mêd' en perideipnôi epainethêsomenos ho trisbdeluros kai kukôn kai phurdên kai migdên poiôn hapanta, to Kuklôpeion teras: ho eidechthês kai embrontêtos kai ploutindên hêirêmenos biônai, theou opin ouk alegôn oude kateptêchôs adrasteian aphukton: ho bômolocheuôn aei kai perpera glischreuomenos, ho kunôn kunteros kai daimonôn argaleôteros.
Notes:
The unglossed headword phrase is probably generated by a very similar one in the first quotation given; if not, its origin is unidentifiable.
[1] An approximation of Synesius, Dion 1.103 (PG 66.1117c), where Socrates and Zeno are specified as the targets; cf. beta 86.
[2] From delta 1168, q.v. (This sentence and the rest of the entry that follows it are absent, Adler reports, from ms F.)
[3] cf. Homer, Iliad 18.104, Odyssey 20.379 (web address 1 and web address 2); also Psalm 9.28 LXX, quoted again at omicron 765.
[4] These insults were attributed by Bernhardy to Aelian (see fr.71 Hercher on the merchant Dionysios: delta 1337 etc.); but Adler suspects that they are Byzantine in date.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; economics; epic; ethics; food; mythology; philosophy; poetry; religion; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 2 March 2005@23:34:21.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented n.4; modified keywords; cosmetics) on 3 March 2005@03:29:26.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 4 December 2005@08:58:25.
Catharine Roth (augmented note 3) on 20 June 2010@22:59:42.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; more keywords; tweaking) on 12 July 2012@07:06:57.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 25 August 2013@17:37:41.
David Whitehead (added primary note; coding and other cosmetics) on 11 November 2015@05:09:49.

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