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Headword: *duspinh=
Adler number: delta,1688
Translated headword: squalid (things)
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] ones that have been made filthy, dirty ones.[1] For squalor [pinos] [is] filth. Aristophanes [writes]: "but now do you wish for the squalid robes [which Bellerophon wore]?"[2]
And elsewhere: "then he put on squalid garments".[3]
Greek Original:
*duspinh=: ta\ e)rrupwme/na, ta\ r(upara/. pi/nos ga\r o( r(u/pos. *)aristofa/nhs: a)ll' h)/dh ta\ duspinh= qe/leis peplw/mata; kai\ au)=qis: ei)=t' e)/duse duspinei=s stola/s.
Notes:
[1] Neuter plurals, the headword one extracted from the passage about to be quoted.
[2] Aristophanes, Acharnians 426 (with h)/dh instead of h)=: see web address 1), with scholion. Euripides, the speaker of this line, delighted -- or was supposed by Aristophanes to delight -- in the representation of misery and wretchedness on the stage. Besides this notable adjective, Aristophanes uses here the neuter noun pe/plwma (in the plural: enrobings; cross-reference at pi 1007). It will have called to mind the Panathenaic pe/plos (pi 1006), and the tragedians use it to generate solemn atmospheres evoking an historic, heroic garment. Nonetheless it is evident that in this context Aristophanes seeks to create nothing but a comic effect. See (at web address 2) an article by Mireille M. Lee on the "Tragedic peplos". For Bellerophon see generally iota 400.
[3] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1597 (but here with an unsatisfactory textual variant, e)/duse "put on" for e)/luse "loosened": web address 3).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; mythology; stagecraft; tragedy
Translated by: Stefano Sanfilippo on 22 February 2005@13:57:01.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 22 February 2005@15:44:27.
David Whitehead (modified headword and aspects of translation and notes) on 23 February 2005@03:29:41.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 22 July 2012@09:25:23.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 21 February 2015@10:18:48.
Catharine Roth (updated link) on 21 February 2015@11:45:13.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 8 March 2015@01:10:00.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 8 March 2015@04:37:48.
David Whitehead on 17 November 2015@04:08:15.
Catharine Roth (updated link) on 11 November 2016@01:15:47.

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