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Headword:
*paraplh/c
Adler number: pi,415
Translated headword: crazed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who is] mad, out of his wits.[1]
Aristophanes in
Plutus [writes]: "but if coming in I run into[2] a crazed man, struck down by prostitutes and dice games." The witless man. [sc. So called] from the intermittent (?drum) beats of lyre playing in harmony. Or the stupid man. For really profligacy is a stupid way of thinking.[3]
And elsewhere: "to have left there like a crazed man."[4]
*paraplh/c: maino/menos, para/frwn. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: h)\n d' ei)s paraplh=g' a)/nqrwpon ei)selqw\n tu/xw, po/rnaisi kai\ ku/boisi parabeblhme/nos. o( a)/frwn. a)po\ tw=n krouma/twn tw=n diapeptwko/twn tou= e)narmoni/ou lurismou=. h)\ o( mwro/s. a)lhqw=s ga\r h( a)swti/a peplhgme/nh e)sti\ dia/noia. kai\ au)=qis: paraplh=gi e)oiko/ta e)nqe/nde a)pallagh=nai.
Notes:
[1] Similarly in other lexica (references at
Photius pi282 Theodoridis); and cf.
pi 414.
[2] Though the mss do have
ei)s here, editors routinely print Junta's emendation to
w(s, giving better grammar: 'a man like a crazy'.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Plutus (
Wealth) 242-3, with material from the
scholia and commentaries thereto. The reference to intermittent beats seems to imply group music involving a lyre and drums, but might mean simply intermittence in the lyre-playing.
[4]
Procopius,
Secret History 12.26.
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 6 April 2002@17:02:11.
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