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Headword:
Anabaine
Adler number: alpha,1802
Translated headword: step up
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It should be known that the ancients used to say
a)nabai/nein for entering into a speaking-platform, but
katabai/nein [meant] departing thence, from the ancient custom.
Aristophanes [writes]: "sausage-seller, come here, come here, o dearest friend, step up, o manifest saviour of the city and us."
Greek Original:Anabaine: isteon, hoti elegon hoi palaioi to epi logeion eisienai anabainein, katabainein de to apallattesthai enteuthen, apo tou palaiou êthous. Aristophanês: allantopôla, deuro, deur', ô philtate, anabaine sôtêr têi polei kai nôin phaneis.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Knights 148-149 (web address 1), with scholion.
On the speaking-platform in the Athenian Assembly -- the one in question here -- see Hansen (below) 128.
Reference:
M.H. Hansen, The Athenian Democracy (Oxford 1991)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 October 2000@21:47:10.
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