Suda On Line menu Search

Home
Search results for alphaiota,14 in Adler number:
Greek display:    
Headword: Aiboi
Adler number: alphaiota,14
Translated headword: aiboi! bah!
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
An adverb of indignation.[1] It is applied also to pleasure by Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "aiboi! There is nothing sweeter than flying!"[2]
Greek Original:
Aiboi: schetliastikon epirrêma. tattetai de kai epi hêdonês para Aristophanei en Ornisin: aiboi: ouk estin ouden tou petesthai glukuteron.
Notes:
The headword recurs, unglosssed, as alphaiota 15.
[1] From a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 829, where the headword occurs.
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 1341-2, with scholion.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 September 2002@00:56:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 15 September 2002@05:07:27.
David Whitehead (added note) on 15 September 2002@05:09:23.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 10 May 2012@05:28:03.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 10 May 2012@23:58:21.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 22 November 2015@05:03:02.
Find      

Test Database Real Database

(Try these tips for more productive searches.)
No. of records found: 1    Page 1

End of search