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Headword:
*)ana/baine
Adler number: alpha,1802
Translated headword: step up
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It should be known that the ancients used to say
a)nabai/nein for entering into a speaking-platform, but
katabai/nein [meant] departing thence, from the ancient custom.
Aristophanes [writes]: "sausage-seller, come here, come here, o dearest friend, step up, o manifest saviour of the city and us."
*)ana/baine: i)ste/on, o(/ti e)/legon oi( palaioi\ to\ e)pi\ logei=on ei)sie/nai a)nabai/nein, katabai/nein de\ to\ a)palla/ttesqai e)nteu=qen, a)po\ tou= palaiou= h)/qous. *)aristofa/nhs: a)llantopw/la, deu=ro, deu=r', w)= fi/ltate, a)na/baine swth\r th=| po/lei kai\ nw=in fanei/s.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Knights 148-149 (web address 1), with scholion.
On the speaking-platform in the Athenian Assembly -- the one in question here -- see Hansen (below) 128.
Reference:
M.H. Hansen, The Athenian Democracy (Oxford 1991)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 October 2000@21:47:10.
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