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Headword: Ei mê katenipse
Adler number: epsiloniota,148
Translated headword: if he/it had not covered with snow
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"If he/it had not covered Thrace with much snow and held fast the rivers at the very time Theognis was contending ..." This man was a frigid poet of tragedy. And so satirizing him he [= Aristophanes] offers to us "much snow," through this man's frigidity with regard to his poetry.
Greek Original:
Ei mê katenipse tên Thraikên chioni pollêi kai tous potamous epêx' hup' auton ton chronon, hênika Theognis êgônizeto. houtos tragôidias ên poiêtês psuchros. kômôidôn oun auton paristêsin hêmin tên pollên chiona, dia tês toutou peri ta poiêmata psuchrotêtos.
Note:
Aristophanes, Acharnians 138-140 (web address 1) and scholion; quoted again at psi 178. See also alpha 2384, epsilon 3127, theta 137, nu 397.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; geography; imagery; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 7 August 2003@15:00:35.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics, note, link, keyword) on 8 August 2003@01:09:14.
David Whitehead (added x-refs and keywords; cosmetics) on 8 August 2003@03:32:25.
David Whitehead on 25 November 2012@08:30:37.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, upgraded link) on 27 December 2012@17:50:57.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note, cosmetics) on 26 August 2013@21:38:14.
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