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Headword:
*plou/twn
Adler number: pi,1799
Translated headword: Pluto
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Another way of referring to] the underworld.[1]
Aristophanes [says, when] Pluto is giving a rope to
Aeschylus who is on his way back up: "bring this and give it to Kleophon and this to the providers". A token of death. Perhaps a rope for hanging or something of the kind.[2]
*plou/twn: o( a(/|dhs. *)aristofa/nhs: o( *plou/twn di/dwsi sxoini/on *ai)sxu/lw| e)panio/nti: do\s tou=to *kleofw=nti fe/rwn kai\ tou=to toi=si poristai=s. su/mbolon qana/tou. i)/sws sxoini/on pro\s a)gxo/nhn h)/ ti toiou=ton.
Notes:
[1] cf. generally
alpha 467,
kappa 2078.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1504-5 (where the second 'this' in the Suda is 'these', sc. nooses), with comment from the
scholia there. Kleophon is not
kappa 1730 but a populist politician of the time. The 'providers' (
poristai) were financial officials.
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 17 July 2003@09:27:03.
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