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Headword: *flu/aros
Adler number: phi,548
Translated headword: babble, chatter
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] idle-talk and nonsense and vain speech. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "and all the rest is babble."[1]
And elsewhere: "for without it being a necessity, what is the need to babble anything whatsoever to anyone?"[2]
Greek Original:
*flu/aros: flh/nafos kai\ lh=ros kai\ ma/taios lo/gos. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: ta\ d' a)/lla pa/nt' e)sti\ flu/aros. kai\ au)=qis: mh\ ga\r ou)/shs a)na/gkhs, ti/ dei=n fluarei=n o(tiou=n pro\s o(ntinaou=n.
Notes:
[1] An approximation of Aristophanes, Clouds 365 (web address 1), with scholion.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; rhetoric
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 8 August 2007@11:01:38.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 8 August 2007@13:02:46.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; tweaks and cosmetics) on 9 August 2007@03:31:29.
David Whitehead on 13 December 2013@06:54:13.
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