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Headword:
Memiltômenon
Adler number: mu,564
Translated headword: miltos-soaked
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "they are fleeing the miltos-soaked rope." Since the Athenians were idle as regards the meetings, two attendants used to stretch out a miltos-soaked rope through the
agora and chase the mob into the assembly, as
Plato the comic poet says. And those who were dyed had to pay a fine.
Greek Original:Memiltômenon: Aristophanês: to schoinion pheugousi to memiltômenon. epei oknêrôs eichon hoi Athênaioi pros tas sunodous, eiôthasin hupêretai b# memiltômenon schoinion ekteinontes dia tês agoras diôkein ton ochlon eis tên ekklêsian, hôs phêsi Platôn ho kômikos. hosoi de echrionto, exetinon zêmian.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 November 2001@02:55:28.
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