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Headword:
*ou)de\n
h)=lqe
r(ayame/nh
sku/tinon
kaqeime/non
Adler number: omicron,792
Translated headword: she came having sewn to herself nothing leather and dangly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The "-thing" is redundant.[1] For he wanted to say, simply, it did not come.
Greek Original:*ou)de\n h)=lqe r(ayame/nh sku/tinon kaqeime/non: pare/lkei to\ den. h)/qele ga\r ei)pei=n ou)k h)=lqe, sunh/qws.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Clouds 538 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there.
[1] For this point of grammar cf.
omicron 781,
omicron 795. Here, however, it is less apt.
Aristophanes is seeking to claim that his play (the subject of the phrase) will not stoop to obvious, low buffoonery.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery; stagecraft; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 October 2001@05:49:29.
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