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Headword: Ohios
Adler number: omicroniota,154
Translated headword: such [as to]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] able.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "for I am no longer able to rise above the bilge." Meaning to hold up against and prevail over the situation. From a metaphor of boats, which are in danger when they are filled with bilge-water. He wants to say, I am overcome by the situation.[2]
And elsewhere [Aristophanes writes]: "of a wise man, who is able in brief to cut short many words."[3]
Greek Original:
Ohios: dunatos. Aristophanês: ou gar eth' hoios t' eim' huperechein tês antlias. anti tou antechein kai periginesthai tou pragmatos. apo metaphoras tôn ploiôn, haper kinduneuei tês antlias plêrôthenta. bouletai de eipein, hoti nikômai hupo tou pragmatos. kai authis: sophou pros andros, hostis en brachei pollous kalôs hoios te suntemnein logous.
Notes:
[1] cf. omicroniota 150, omicroniota 156, omicroniota 189.
[2] Aristophanes, Peace 17 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. alpha 2750, upsilon 272.
[3] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 178 (web address 2); cf. sigma 792. Euripides is speaking.
Associated internet addresses:
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; imagery; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 June 2005@00:53:59.
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