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Headword: Autokomou
Adler number: alpha,4499
Translated headword: natural-haired
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes, in Frogs [writes] about Aeschylus: "bristling the shaggy-necked locks of his natural-haired crest."[1] As [if] he said: enraged like a boar. "He [a lion] draws his whole brow downward."[2]
Greek Original:
Autokomou: Aristophanês Batrachois peri Aischulou: phrixas d' autokomou lophias lasiauchena chaitên. hôs eipen, orgistheis hôsper sus. pan to episkunion katô helketai.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Frogs 822 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there.
[2] Homer, Iliad 17.136.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; epic; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 21 March 2002@16:41:50.
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David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 10 April 2002@10:36:04.
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