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Headword:
Porthmeis
Adler number: pi,2071
Translated headword: ferrymen
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] crossing-men.
Aristophanes [writes]: "you would be bothersome if you became ferrymen. You would drag the passengers and rough them up." Because ferrymen force passers-by to get onto their own boats.
Greek Original:Porthmeis: hoi peratai. Aristophanês: chalepai g' an ête genomenai porthmeis. helkontes tous plôtêras apeknaiete. epeidê hoi porthmeis tous pariontas anankazousin eis ta idia ploia embainein.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; meter and music; poetry; science and technology; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 17 February 2013@12:24:11.
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