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Headword:
Pareiai
opheis
Adler number: pi,585
Translated headword: brown snakes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Certain snakes are called [brown] because of having large cheeks.[1]
Hyperides in the [speech]
Against Demades says: "politicians are like snakes, for while all snakes are hateful and some of them, the vipers, harm men, the others -- the brown snakes -- eat the vipers themselves." [2]
Pareiai opheis: onomazontai tines opheis houtôs, para to pareias meizous echein. ho de Huperidês en tôi kata Dêmadou phêsin, einai de tous rhêtoras homoious tois ophesi: tous te gar opheis misêtous men einai pantas: tôn de opheôn autôn tous men echeis tous anthrôpous adikein, tous de pareias autous tous echeis katesthiein.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting in the first instance on
Demosthenes 18.260 (where a version of the headword phrase occurs in the accusative plural).
[1] This punning explanation (which Harpok. cites from
Cratinus fr. 225 Kock = 241 Kassel-Austin) only works in the Greek, where the difference between "brown" (
parei=ai) and "cheeks" (
pareiai/;
pi 584) is purely a matter of accent. See also
omicron 1002.
[2]
Hyperides fr. 80 Jensen.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 December 2000@09:14:18.
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