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Histion
sapron
Adler number: iota,690
Translated headword: a ragged sail
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] old rigging, worn out or not serviceable.
Aristophanes [writes]: "[I will contrive that you take] a ragged sail."[1]
"As if his nature recognized late its proper work, not little by little, but with the same sails as he was carried away from the sophistic sect, when he first became a philosopher."[2]
Greek Original:Histion sapron: armenon palaion, tribakon ê mê harmozon. Aristophanês: anti tou histion sapron. hôsper epignousês opse tês phuseôs autou to oikeion ergon, ou kata mikron, all' hosois histiois apênechthê tês sophistikês proaireseôs, epeidê to prôton ephilosophêsen.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; imagery; military affairs; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 April 2006@18:19:41.
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