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Headword:
*monw|dei=n
e)k
*mhdei/as
Adler number: mu,1243
Translated headword: to sing a monody from a Medea
Vetting Status: high
Translation: ["[Then] to sing a monody from a Medea,] 'I am undone, I am undone, deprived of the ones embedded in beets'." He is speaking about the gourmet Melanthios, because arriving in the market to buy eels as a delicacy and not finding [any] he would be indignant; inasmuch as cooks boil eels with beets.
Greek Original:*monw|dei=n e)k *mhdei/as: o)lo/man, o)lo/man, a)poxeirwqei\s ta\s e)n teu/tloisi loxeuome/nas. peri\ *melanqi/ou le/gei tou= o)yofa/gou, o(/ti a)fiko/menos e)n th=| a)gora=| o)ywnh=sai e)gxe/leis kai\ mh\ eu(rw\n sxetlia/soi: paro/son oi( ma/geiroi meta\ teu/tlwn e(/yousi ta\s e)gxe/leis.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Peace 1012-1014 (web address 1), with scholion. (The noun implicit in the passage is eels.) For Melanthios, tragedian as well as gourmet, cf.
mu 457. For other Medea-tragedies cf. under (e.g.)
delta 1142,
epsilon 3694,
mu 673,
sigma 1178.
See also, on monodies,
mu 1242,
mu 1244.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; economics; ethics; food; meter and music; mythology; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 August 2009@07:49:25.
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