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Headword:
Aeronêcheis
Adler number: alpha,563
Translated headword: air-swimming
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The clouds swimming in the air.
Aristophanes [sc. uses the word].
Greek Original:Aeronêcheis: tas en tôi aeri nêchomenas nephelas. Aristophanês.
Note:
A slip, here and in ps.-
Zonaras.
Aristophanes does use this mock-tragic adjective, in
Clouds 337, but of birds; a scholiast there simply says "the ones swimming in the air". See web address 1.
Reference:
J. Taillardat, Les Images d' Aristophane (Paris 1965) 431 n.4
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; tragedy
Translated by: Frederick Williams on 27 October 1999@06:33:01.
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