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Headword: All' ou themis
Adler number: alpha,1353
Translated headword: but not lawful
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] but [it is] not possible. "But [it is] not lawful to tell, except to the students." He is introducing these things[1] for ridicule and calumny. For slandering and envying [is] alien to philosophers, whose way is to share in everything without envy.
Greek Original:
All' ou themis: all' ou dunaton. all' ou themis plên tois mathêtaisi legein. epi diasurmôi kai diabolêi tauta pareisagei. allotrion gar tôn philosophôn to baskainein kai phthonein, hois to koinônein peri pantôn aphthonôs.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Clouds 140, with scholion (cf. mu 44).
[1] The story about Socrates and Chairephon which follows.
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 31 May 2000@13:06:33.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 5 February 2001@09:09:16.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 9 February 2012@06:43:47.
David Whitehead on 12 June 2015@09:09:11.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 27 June 2020@23:13:49.
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