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Headword:
Aporrêta
Adler number: alpha,3501
Translated headword: unspeakable [things]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] incomprehensible [ones], hidden [ones].[1]
They used to say
aporrêta to imply prohibited things,[2] not only forbidden ones. "And they are saying things that should not be spoken to our enemies."
Aristophanes [writes this] in
Thesmophoriazusae.[3]
Unspeakable [things are] the ones prohibited in the laws. Thus
Demosthenes [uses this word] in the [speech]
In Defence of Ctesiphon.[4]
Everything which is prohibited they also call forbidden.
Aristophanes [writes]: "he does not intend to do anything unspeakable."[5] Therefore they also give this name to things which are not to be exported.
Aporrêta: akatalêpta, apokrupha. aporrêta elegon ta apeirêmena exagesthai, ou monon ta apêgoreumena. aporrêta te toisin echthroisi tois hêmeterois legousin. Aristophanês Thesmophoriazousais. Aporrêta, ta apeirêmena en tois nomois. houtôs Dêmosthenês en tôi huper Ktêsiphôntos. panta ta apeirêmena kai apêgoreumena legousin. Aristophanês: ou ti t' aporrêta dran esti mellei. dioper kai ta mê exagôgima onomazousin houtô.
Notes:
[1] Same material in other lexica.
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Frogs 362.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 363 (web address 1), with scholion.
[4]
Demosthenes 18.123 (web address 2). Here the Suda has used Harpokration s.v., who cites this Demosthenic passage and
Lysias 10.6.
[5]
Aristophanes fr. 622 Kock (now 633 K.-A.) -- here very garbled: there is no initial negative, for example; but the notion of doing something unspeakable is clear enough.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; law; rhetoric; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 December 2001@12:34:10.
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