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Headword:
Arutesthai
Adler number: alpha,4067
Translated headword: to draw
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They say [it] with the tau, not
a)ru/esqai [sc. but
a)ru/tesqai].
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "whether to draw water from the course of the Nile's streams in golden bowls...".[1] And
Plato in
Laws [writes]: "he who draws from these [sources of pleasure and pain] the right amount from the right one at the right time [will be happy]".[2]
Greek Original:Arutesthai: sun tôi t legousin, ouk aruesthai. Aristophanês Nephelais: eit' ara Neilou prochoas hudatôn chruseois arutesthai prochusin. kai Platôn Nomois: hôn ho men arutomenos hothen te dê kai hoposa kai hopote.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 272 (loosely quoted:
Aristophanes has e.g. the indicative
a)ru/tesqe ["you draw"] rather than the infinitive
a)ru/tesqai). See web address 1 below.
[2]
Plato,
Laws 636D-E (which has
o(/qen te dei= for the present
o(/qen te dh\). See web address 2.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; imagery; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 April 2001@12:46:28.
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