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Headword:
Atêrotaton
Adler number: alpha,4353
Translated headword: most baneful, very baneful
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A word used by
Aristophanes] in
Wasps.[1]
Plato in
Phaon [writes]
a)thri/as ["banefulness"].[2]
Also [sc. attested is]
a)thro/n ["something baneful"].
Aristophanes [writes]: "for wasn't the old man a baneful evil?"[3]
And elsewhere: "they were laughing baneful laughter."[4] [Meaning] harmful.
Greek Original:Atêrotaton: Sphêxi. Platôn d' en Phaôni atêrias. kai Atêron. Aristophanês: ou gar ho gerôn atêron ên kakon. kai authis: hoi de egelôn gelôn atêron. blaberon.
Notes:
[1] See note 3.
[2]
Plato Comicus fr. 182 Kock, now 198 K.-A.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1299 (web address 1 below).
[4]
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr 111 Habrich.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 23 March 2002@08:43:18.
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