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Headword:
*ma\
to/n
Adler number: mu,292
Translated headword: by g-!
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He is swearing elliptically; and thus it is a habit of the ancients sometimes not to add the [name of the] god. For they were accustomed to use such oaths euphemistically, which resulted in saying "by g-!" but no longer adding a name.
Plato, too, [is said] to use such [an idiom].[1]
*ma\ to/n: e)lleiptikw=s o)mnu/ei: kai\ ou(/tws e)/qos e)sti\ toi=s a)rxai/ois e)ni/ote mh\ prostiqe/nai to\n qeo/n. ei)w/qeisan ga\r toi=s toiou/tois o(/rkois xrh=sqai e)neufhmizo/menoi, w(/ste ei)pei=n me\n ma\ to/n, o)/noma de\ mhke/ti prosqei=nai. kai\ *pla/twna de\ tw=| toiou/tw| kexrh=sqai.
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; philosophy; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 September 2001@08:33:41.
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