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Headword:
*kaloi/
Adler number: kappa,265
Translated headword: beautiful [youths]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "they[1] used to write on the walls: Athenians [are] beautiful[2]". It was a peculiarity of lovers to write the names of their beloveds on walls or trees or leaves of trees, thus: So-and-so [is] beautiful.
Greek Original:*kaloi/: *)aristofa/nhs: e)n toi=si toi/xois e)/grafon: *)aqhnai/ois kalo/s. i)/dion e)rastw=n h)=n to\ ta\ tw=n e)rwme/nwn o)no/mata gra/fein e)n toi=s toi/xois h)\ de/ndrois h)\ fu/llois de/ndrwn, ou(/tws: o( dei=na kalo/s.
Notes:
An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 144 (where this practice is mentioned: web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there; cf.
omicron 34, and see generally LSJ s.v.
kalo/s, 2.
[1] 'He' in
Aristophanes.
[2] Nonsensical dative plural here, for
Aristophanes' nominative plural; and ungrammatical singular
kalo/s (for what should be
kaloi/).
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; ethics; gender and sexuality
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 December 2003@05:22:34.
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