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Headword:
Toioutoni
Themistoklês
ou
pôpot'
epenoêsen
Adler number: tau,1133
Translated headword: Themistocles never thought of such a thing as this here
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [says this].[1] Either because of the fortification of Peiraeus;[2] or because
Themistocles left behind a reputation for wisdom, having interpreted for the Athenians the oracle they had been given: 'farseeing Zeus gives a wooden wall to Athena'. Others were saying other things, but
Themistocles declared that 'wooden wall' meant the triremes.[3]
Greek Original:Toioutoni Themistoklês ou pôpot' epenoêsen: Aristophanês. ê dia to teichisai ton Peiraia: ê hoti sophias doxan apênenkato Themistoklês, saphênisas Athênaiois ton dothenta chrêsmon: teichos Tritogeneiêi xulinon didoi euruopa Zeus. allôn de alla legontôn, Themistoklês ephê tas triêreis legein xulinon teichos.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Knights 884 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia to 886.
[2] See generally
Thucydides 1.93 (web address 2), and Robert Garland,
The Piraeus (London 1987) 14-22.
[3] Cf.
alpha 2371.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 April 2003@06:59:06.
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