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Headword: *)afauanqh/somai
Adler number: alpha,4565
Translated headword: I will be dried up
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] I will be withered.[1] Also [sc. attested is] a)fau/ei ["he/she/it dries out"]. Aristophanes [writes]: "reaping others' corn ears, he ties them up and dries them out in the stall, and tries to sell them."[2] That is, Kleon himself is farming and reaping others' efforts. [The poet] is hinting at the city,[3] because when Demosthenes had already done the work Kleon recorded the victory concerning the events in Sphakteria. Now those ears of corn, which he brought thence, he has tied up and is drying out in the stall, and tries to sell them. In reference to the prisoners-of-war. He spoke of ears of corn from the harvest, which Kleon promised he would bring out alive after a time. So he is saying: those whom he tied up and brought out he intends to let go.
Also [sc. attested is] a)fau/ein, [meaning] to burn. "To shave these off, and to burn what's below."[4]
Greek Original:
*)afauanqh/somai: chranqh/somai. kai\ *)afau/ei. *)aristofa/nhs: tou\s a)llotri/ous a)mw=n sta/xus, tou/tous e)n cu/lw| dh/sas a)fau/ei, ka)podo/sqai bou/letai. toute/stin o( *kle/wn tou\s a)llotri/ous kama/tous au)to\s gewrgw=n kai\ karpou/menos. ai)ni/ttetai de\ pro\s th\n po/lin, o(/ti tou= *dhmosqe/nous propeponhko/tos au)to\s th\n ni/khn e)pigra/fetai peri\ tw=n e)n *sfakthri/a|. nu=n de\ sta/xus e)kei/nous, ou(\s e)kei=qen h)/gagen, e)n cu/lw| dh/sas a)fau/ei, ka)podo/sqai bou/letai. e)pi\ tw=n ai)xmalw/twn. a)po\ tou= a)mhtou= sta/xus ei)=pen, ou(\s zw=ntas a)/cein katepaggeila/menos o( *kle/wn e)mproqe/smws h)/gage. fhsi\n ou)=n: e)kei/nous, ou(\s dh/sas h)/gagen, a)polu=sai dianoei=tai. kai\ *)afau/ein, kai/ein. a)pocurei=n tadi\, ta\ ka/tw d' a)fau/ein.
Notes:
[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 146, where this primary headword (future passive, first person singular, of a)fauai/nw) appears.
[2] Aristophanes, Knights 392-4 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there; cf. alpha 1635. On the event in question, the campaign of Demosthenes and Kleon at Pylos and Sphakteria in the SW Peloponnese (425/4) which saw captured Spartans brought back to Athens, see Thucydides 4.1-41. For Kleon see generally kappa 1731.
[3] So the transmitted text, but the scholiast has 'at Pylos'.
[4] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 215-16 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
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Keywords: agriculture; biography; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; history; imagery; military affairs; politics
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 December 2001@11:07:38.
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