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Headword: *kri/nesi stefanoi=s
Adler number: kappa,2427
Translated headword: with lily crowns
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
That is, the abusive statements [coming] from you are, for me, crowns [made] out of lilies. [The word kri/nesi] is declined from the [noun] kri/nos,[1] like tei=xos. But some say it is a metaplasm.[2]
Greek Original:
*kri/nesi stefanoi=s: toute/stin ai( loidori/ai ai( para\ sou= ste/fanoi/ moi/ ei)sin e)k kri/nwn. ke/klitai de\ a)po\ tou= to\ kri/nos, w(s to\ tei=xos. oi( de/ fasi metaplasmo\n ei)=nai.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Clouds 911 (web address 1), with scholion.
[1] Rather, kri/non; cf. kappa 2429, and next note.
[2] i.e. that such a presumed nominative does not exist.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 December 2008@09:49:07.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 14 December 2008@22:59:27.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr) on 15 December 2008@03:10:13.
David Whitehead on 18 March 2013@04:50:21.

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