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Headword: *periko/myous
Adler number: pi,1185
Translated headword: over-subtle
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes [writes]: "put a stop to our suspicions, the over-subtle ones which we chatter about to each other. [...] And mix our thinking with some gentler companionship."[1] "We chatter about" meaning we babble about.[2]
Greek Original:
*periko/myous: *)aristofa/nhs: pau=son h(mw=n ta\s u(ponoi/as ta\s periko/myous, ai(=s stwmullo/meq' ei)s a)llh/lous. kai\ suggnw/mh| tini\ praote/ra| ke/rason to\n nou=n. stwmullo/meqa, a)nti\ tou= fluarou=men.
Notes:
The unglossed headword, evidently extracted from the quotation given, is a two-ending adjective, peri/komyos, in the masculine and feminine accusative plural; see generally LSJ s.v. It is attested only here.
[1] Aristophanes, Peace 993-8 (web address 1), here abridged: Trygaeus, addressing Peace, has an optimistic moment prior to the sacrifice for her; cf. sigma 1154. [In her critical apparatus Adler notes that ms F omitted this text as well as the following repeated verb form.]
[2] From the scholia to line 995 of this Aristophanic passage; again at sigma 1154. The verb form picked out for comment is the present indicative middle/passive, first person plural, of stwmu/llw, I chatter, am talkative; see generally LSJ s.v. The glossing verb, with a more disparaging sense, is the present indicative active, first person plural, of the contract verb fluare/w, I talk nonsense, babble, play the fool; see generally LSJ s.v. [Adler notes that ms A omitted this note and that ms F transmits flua/rous: meaning [sc. we speak] foolish things.]
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; religion
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 10 March 2011@00:22:08.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked headword and tr; augmented primary note; cosmetics) on 10 March 2011@03:26:32.
Catharine Roth (typo, upgraded link) on 10 March 2011@16:27:17.
David Whitehead on 22 September 2011@07:50:44.
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