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Headword:
Ohion
Adler number: omicroniota,146
Translated headword: how, such
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Expression] of amazement.[1]
"You will never again see this man -- I make a great boast -- such [a one as ...]."[2]
Aristophanes [writes as follows] about Kleon: "How the cursed man eats bending over!" By the expression he indicates the man's gluttony. For of men and other creatures those who most often bend over and lie down for their food seem to eat insatiably and greedily.[3]
Ohion: to thaumastikon. ouk et' andra mê tond' idêt': epos exereô meg', hoion. Aristophanês peri Kleônos: hoion de kupsas ho kataratos esthiei. dia tou schêmatos tên adêphagian autou dêloi. kai gar tôn anthrôpôn kai tôn thremmatôn hoi malista tois edesmasin enkekuphotes kai proskeimenoi dokousin aplêstôs kai perispoudastôs esthiein.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (references at
Photius omicron139 Theodoridis), and cf. a scholion on
Plato,
Gorgias 481B.
[2] From a choral ode at
Sophocles,
Ajax 421-3 (web address 1).
[3]
Aristophanes,
Peace 33 (web address 2), and scholion. For Kleon see generally
kappa 1731.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 January 2004@00:00:11.
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