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Headword: Lepreos
Adler number: lambda,289
Translated headword: Lepreos, Lepreus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes [writes]: "I abominate Lepreos because of Melanthios." This man had leprosy, but he was also ridiculed in comedy for being soft. In addition he was a criminal, a gourmet, and a gossip. [Aristophanes writes]: "by god, even without seeing it I abominate Lepreos because of Melanthios."
Greek Original:
Lepreos: Aristophanês: bdeluttomai ton Lepreon apo Melanthiou. houtos eiche lepran, ekômôideito de kai eis malakian. ên de kai kakopragmôn kai opsophagos kai lalos. nê ton theon, hos ouk idôn bdeluttomai ton Lepreon apo Melanthiou.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Birds 150-1 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. See already lambda 288.
On this Melanthios -- who was also a tragic poet -- see Dunbar ad loc.
Reference:
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; ethics; food; geography; medicine; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 July 2001@07:55:51.
Vetted by:
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added link; added italics; cosmetics; set status) on 1 November 2003@21:40:27.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 2 November 2003@05:38:06.
David Whitehead on 5 April 2013@05:40:26.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 5 April 2013@22:28:13.
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