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Headword:
Antallagon
Adler number: alpha,2606
Translated headword: substitute
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They say
antallagos, not
antallos, for the man who has been exchanged for another.
Menander in
Basket-bearer [writes]: "she needed to employ her own daughter as substitute."[1] In
Widow:[2] "willingly your sister will do this for you and will have a substitute when married off to him."[3] And in
Fishermen: "our real seducer has escaped, but a substitute [...]."[4]
Antallagon kalousi ton anti heterou êllagmenon, ouchi antallon. Menandros Kanêphorôi: edeito chrêsai tên seautês thugatera antallagon. Chêrai: hekousa hê adelphê poiêsei toutois hoi antallagos texeis ho toutôi didomenên. kai en Haliei: eklelaktiken ho chrêstos hêmin moichos, all' antallagos.
Notes:
[1]
Menander fr. 254 Kock, now 198 K.-A.
[2] Thus far the entry is also in
Photius and other lexica.
[3]
Menander fr. 513 Kock, now 404 K.-A. (but here so garbled as to be untranslatable).
[4]
Menander fr. 16 Kock, now 20 K.-A.; cf.
epsilon 460.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 July 2001@12:33:25.
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