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Headword:
Saphesteron
eipe
kalêthesteron
Adler number: sigma,163
Translated headword: speak more clearly and more truthfully
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[Dionysus:] Now speak, [
Euripides:] when we consider believable things now unbelievable, and unbelievable the things that are believable [
Dion.:] How? I don't understand. Speak somehow more unsophisticatedly and more clearly." From the saying: tell me more clearly and more unsophisticatedly. And he [sc.
Euripides] said, "if we should stop trusting those of the citizens whom we now trust, and use those whom we do not use ... [
Dion.:] we would be saved. [Eur.:] If as things are we are having bad luck with these people, how would we not be saved by doing the opposite? [
Dion.:] Bravo, Palamedes! You very wise soul! Did you come up with this yourself or did Kephisophon?"
Saphesteron eipe kalêthesteron: eipe gar, hotan ta nun apista pisth' hêgômetha, ta d' onta pist' apista. pôs; ou manthanô. amathesteron pôs eipe kai saphesteron. para tên paroimian: saphesteron moi kamathesteron phrason. ho de eipen: ei tôn politôn, hoisi nun pisteuomen, toutois apistêsaimen: hois d' ou chrômetha, toutois chrêsaimetha, sôtheiêmen an. ei nun ge dustuchoumen en toutoisi, pôs tanantia praxantes ou sôzoimeth' an; eu g', ô Palamêdes, ô sophôtatê phusis, tauti poter' autos heures, ê Kêphisophôn;
Notes:
The entry consists of a loose quotation of
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1442-1452, punctuated by comments from the
scholia to line 1445.
Line-attribution here is that of N.G. Wilson's OCT, although Wilson follows other modern editors in transposing lines 1451-2 (from "Bravo.." to "...Kephisophon") to follow line 1441.
The present headword-phrase itself seems to be an error, with
ka)lhqe/steron ('and more truthfully') substituted for the similar
ka)maqe/steron ('and more unsophisticatedly') of the original. (The corrrect version occurs in the comment.) Also, the two adverbs are here reversed.
Both the passage and the scholion have already been quoted, more briefly, at
alpha 1470 (q.v.). See also
kappa 1568.
Translated by: William Hutton on 17 October 2013@08:45:30.
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