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Headword:
Pharmakous
Adler number: phi,106
Translated headword: scapegoats
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those maintained at public expense, who would cleanse the cities by their own death.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]. "[if] you maintain [them] like public victims [...]; and then, when you happen to have no food left, sacrifice and feast on whichever of them is fat".[2]
Pharmakous: tous dêmosiai trephomenous, hoi ekathairon tas poleis tôi heautôn phonôi. Aristophanês: hôsper dêmosious trepheis: kaith', hotan mê soi tuchoi opson on, toutôn hos an êi pachus, thusas epideipneis.
Notes:
[1] cf.
phi 104,
phi 105.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Knights 1135-40 (abridged; web address 1). It is preceded here by comment -- which includes the present headword, an accusative plural -- from the
scholia there (to 1136).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 November 2001@06:24:47.
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