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Headword: *farmakou/s
Adler number: phi,106
Translated headword: scapegoats
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Those maintained at public expense, who would cleanse the cities by their own death.[1] Aristophanes [writes]. "[if] you maintain [them] like public victims [...]; and then, when you happen to have no food left, sacrifice and feast on whichever of them is fat".[2]
Greek Original:
*farmakou/s: tou\s dhmosi/a| trefome/nous, oi(\ e)ka/qairon ta\s po/leis tw=| e(autw=n fo/nw|. *)aristofa/nhs: w(/sper dhmosi/ous tre/feis: ka)=|q', o(/tan mh/ soi tu/xoi o)/yon o)/n, tou/twn o(\s a)\n h)=| paxu/s, qu/sas e)pideipnei=s.
Notes:
[1] cf. phi 104, phi 105.
[2] Aristophanes, Knights 1135-40 (abridged; web address 1). It is preceded here by comment -- which includes the present headword, an accusative plural -- from the scholia there (to 1136).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 November 2001@06:24:47.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead on 6 September 2002@12:52:23.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added link) on 10 December 2003@16:54:47.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference, upgraded link) on 31 August 2011@11:42:08.
David Whitehead (expanded note; another keyword) on 1 September 2011@07:28:16.

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