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Headword:
Psolokompia
Adler number: psi,123
Translated headword: smokey talk
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] boasting/imposture.
Aristophanes in
Knights [writes]: "I delighted in threats, I laughed at smokey talk."
[That is] at big pretensions and big claims of success. From the previously mentioned nouns, from thundering and shaking up the earth and pushing down overhanging banks and using lightning; for of lightning bolts, some are descending [from sky to earth], but others are smokey -- those which destroy by burning -- and others are called vivid.[1]
Greek Original:Psolokompia: alazoneia. Aristophanês Hippeusin: hêsthên apeilais, egelasa psolokompiais. megalodoxiais kai megaloporiais. apo tôn proeirêmenôn onomatôn, tou brontan kai tarattein tên gên kai krêmnous ereidein kai keraunois chrêsthai: tôn gar keraunôn hoi men kataibatai, hoi de psoloentes, hoi kata tên psausin olluntes, hoi de argêtes kalountai.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Knights 696 (web address 1), and scholion.
[1] This last sentence has been quoted already at
kappa 1379.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; imagery; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 January 2006@01:57:51.
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