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Headword:
Geloios
Adler number: gamma,118
Translated headword: laughable
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the most ridiculous, [accented] proparoxytone. But [differently-accented] geloi=os [means] a laughing-stock.
And [there is] a proverb: "you will end up more laughable than those who try to polish millet, or just like Murmêkides contending against the skill of Pheidias."[1]
And [there is] another proverb: "more laughable than Melitides", in reference to those accused of stupidity. For Melitides was a man mocked by the comic poets for stupidity along the same lines as [they mocked] Amphisteides. They say this man counted the many things he experienced up to five but could not [count] further, and that after marrying he did not touch his bride; for he feared lest the girl would inform against him to her mother. Amphisteides did not know from which of his parents he was born.[2]
Greek Original:Geloios: ho katagelastotatos, proparoxutonôs. Geloios de ho gelôtopoios. kai paroimia: geloioteron apergazêi tôn tas kenchrous apotoreuein epicheirountôn ê kathaper ton Murmêkidên antiprattomenon têi Pheidiou technêi. kai hetera paroimia: Geloioteron Melitidou, epi tôn epi môriai diabeblêmenôn. Melitidês gar anêr kômôidoumenos hupo tôn poiêtôn epi môriai kata tauta tôi Amphisteidêi. touton de phasin arithmêsai men polla pathonta mechri tôn e# kai pera mêketi dunasthai, gêmanta de tês numphês mê hapsasthai: phobeisthai gar mê auton hê pais têi mêtri diaballêi. ho de Amphisteidês êgnoei ex hopoterou goneôn etechthê.
Notes:
The difference in accentuation appears to be an instance of Vendryes' Law; see
gamma 119 and LSJ s.v. on grammarians' inconsistent interpretations.
[1] Julian,
Orations 3.111d-112a (and
Appendix Proverbiorum 1.68); cf.
mu 1444,
phi 246 (end).
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Frogs 990; cf.
alpha 1771,
beta 468, and esp. (for a more explicit version of the present material)
mu 187.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 July 2002@23:20:53.
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