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Headword:
Tôi
nun
logôi
Adler number: tau,872
Translated headword: by what word now?
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning by what kind [sc. of word]?[1] Also, "by what do you judge this?" Meaning by what kind of sign?
Aristophanes [writes this] in
Wealth.[2]
"Chance has inherited a reputation like this in vain. But those who undertake the deeds are responsible, since their high reputation follows on from the same, but sometimes the opposite [happens]."[3]
Greek Original:Tôi nun logôi: anti tou poiôi; kai, tôi touto krineis; anti tou poiôi sêmeiôi; Aristophanês Ploutôi. hê tuchê kenôs keklêronomêke toiautên phêmên. aitioi d' eisin hoi cheirizontes tas praxeis, tôi tais autais epitrechein semnotêta kai megethos, pote de tounantion.
Notes:
In the first two quotations,
tw=| is the dative singular of the interrogative pronoun
ti/s, equivalent to
ti/ni.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 372, with scholion.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 48, with scholion.
[3]
Polybius fr. 83, quoted more fully at
tau 1232, q.v. Here
tw=| is the definite article with an infinitive.
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 February 2014@20:10:01.
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