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Headword:
Akatablêton
Adler number: alpha,811
Translated headword: irrefragable
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one that is] unconquerable; from not striking down; that is, the [argument] which nothing strikes down.[1]
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "for then Pheidippides had not yet learned the irrefragable argument for me."[2]
Greek Original:Akatablêton: aêttêton: para to mê kataballein: toutesti ton mêden kataballonta. Aristophanês Nephelais: ou gar pô tot' exêpistato Pheidippidês moi ton akatablêton logon.
Notes:
The headword adjective, extracted from the quotation given, is masculine accusative singular.
[1] This is what the sense of the gloss requires, though the Greek seems actually to say "that which strikes nothing down".
[2]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1228-9 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 November 2000@22:49:26.
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