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Headword:
Môroi
Adler number: mu,1344
Translated headword: fools
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Fools] and stupid and gawping. Mammakythos: Melitides, Boutalion, Koroibos.[1]
Greek Original:Môroi kai abelteroi kai kechênotes Mammakuthos: Melitidês, Boutaliôn, Koroibos.
Note:
[1] An apparent distortion of
Aristophanes,
Frogs 989-991 (web address 1): "formerly the stupid and gawping dolts [Mammakythos] would sit like blockheads [Melitides]." Boutalion and Koroibos are mentioned, along with Mammakythos and Melitides, as proverbial idiots in the
scholia ad loc. See also
beta 468,
kappa 2113,
mu 523.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; ethics; proverbs
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 6 August 2009@07:59:08.
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