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Headword: Dialeptologoumai
Adler number: delta,629
Translated headword: I discourse subtly
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] I converse.[1] Just as Socrates said: "I tread the air and observe the sun,[2] so that it does not draw the moisture into the watercress".[3] Thus also the old man [says], "I discourse subtly with the beams of the house."[4]
Greek Original:
Dialeptologoumai: dialegomai. hôsper kai ho Sôkratês ephê: aerobatô kai periphronô ton hêlion: hina mê helkêi tên ikmad' es ta kardama. houtô kai ho presbutês: dialeptologoumai tais dokois tês oikias.
Notes:
[1] Or hold a discussion. The headword is a comic coinage; cf. alpha 561, pi 1344.
[2] Aristophanes, Clouds 225 (web address 1).
[3] cf. Aristophanes, Clouds 233-234.
[4] Aristophanes, Clouds 1496 (web address 2), the scholia to which supply the present entry.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy
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