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Headword:
Gerês
Adler number: gamma,197
Translated headword: Gerês
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Name of a pauper and a bald man,[1] of the tribe of the Chaonians.[2] He was mocked for effeminacy.[3] And
Aristophanes [writes]: "who is a friend to you other than Gerês?"[4] It is not from the [word]
gêras ["old age"].
Greek Original:Gerês: onoma penêtos kai phalakrou, ethnous Chaonôn. diebaleto de eis malakian. kai Aristophanês: soi de philos tis estin allos ê Gerês; ouk esti de para to gêras.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 932 (which is quoted below). 'Despite the scholiast we are not to believe in his existence' (R.G. Ussher ad loc.).
[2] cf.
chi 82.
[3] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 604.
[4]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 932 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; gender and sexuality; geography; medicine
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 July 2002@16:32:46.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 8 July 2002@03:07:49.
Catharine Roth (updated link) on 18 November 2011@01:29:24.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; more keywords; tweaks; raised status) on 18 November 2011@03:31:28.
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