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Headword:
Thunnoskopôn
Adler number: theta,584
Translated headword: tunny-watching, tuna-watching
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [sc. uses the word]. Since the tunny-watchers stand on a high spot and keep watch for the tunnies as they enter the nets.[1]
And elsewhere: "a man who is unable to tell the name of his grandfather, nor does he say [that] of his father except [as a guess], having leapt from the tunny-watch into the leader's chariot."[2]
Greek Original:Thunnoskopôn: Aristophanês. epei hoi thunnoskopoi eph' hupsous histamenoi tên kataskopên tôn eisiontôn thunnôn eis ta diktua poiountai. kai authis: anthrôpos ouk echôn eipein onoma pappou, all' oude patros phasi plên hoson, apo thunnoskopeiou epi tên hêgemonikên apênên halamenos.
Notes:
See also the previous entry,
theta 583 (
qunnosko/pos) for similar and related material. More information on tunny-watching is misplaced under
theta 462: Thrasymachos.
[1] From a scholion to
Aristophanes,
Knights 313 (web address 1): Kleon (
kappa 1731) is said to watch for incoming imperial tribute as if tunny-watching.
[2] This quotation from
Synesius,
Letter 57 (197d), also known at the speech
Against Andronicus, has been given in a less lacunose form as
alpha 2534. It is included here as a marginal gloss.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 15 June 2001@15:08:42.
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