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Headword: Aisimos
Adler number: alphaiota,320
Translated headword: Aisimos, Aesimus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A lame and dishonored and unlearned man. Aristophanes [writes]: "examine, each of you, what he will gain, as the community is tossed about just like Aisimos."
Greek Original:
Aisimos: ho chôlos kai atimos kai amathês. Aristophanês: skopeisth' hekastos ho ti kerdanei: to de koinon, hôsper Aisimos kulindetai.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 207, with comment from the scholia there.
For Aisimos, prominent in Athenian politics in the decade or so after 404 BCE, see also (e.g.) Lysias 13.80-82, and Strauss index s.v.
Reference:
Barry Strauss, Athens after the Peloponnesian War (1986)
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; medicine; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 19 March 2003@15:12:48.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 20 March 2003@03:18:58.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 17 May 2012@04:04:19.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 30 November 2015@06:19:12.
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