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Headword: *)antiferi/zeis
Adler number: alpha,2737
Translated headword: you are measuring yourself against
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] you are striving with. To equate one's self.[1] "Measuring yourself against Themistocles, are you? He made our city full, having found it [merely] rim-full." Aristophanes says [this].
Greek Original:
*)antiferi/zeis: e)ri/zeis. e)cisou=sqai. *qemistoklei= a)ntiferi/zeis su/; o(\s e)poi/hse th\n po/lin h(mw=n mesth\n, eu(rw\n e)pixeilh=. *)aristofa/nhs fhsi/n.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Knights 813-814 (web address 1), with scholia. For Themistocles see theta 124, theta 125, theta 126.
The scholiasts found the adjective e)pixeilh= at the end of 814 probematic. Some took it to mean "without walls", but there is no real justification for this. It is therefore better to follow the alternative line of explanation (as most modern editors have done) and accept "rim-full". The point (made at e.g. LSJ s.v.) is that the rim of a Greek cup was deep, so making "rim-full" a lesser quantity than "full". See to this effect epsilon 2768.
[1] This infinitive has strayed in from lexicographical comment on a quite different passage -- Homer, Iliad 21.357 -- where the infinitive a)ntiferi/zein occurs. (The headword a)ntiferi/zeis is also Homeric: Iliad 21.488.)
Reference:
A.J.Podlecki, The Life of Themistocles: a critical survey of the literary and archaeological evidence (Montreal & London 1975) 60
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; epic; ethics; food; history; politics; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 November 2000@03:03:40.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Cosmetics. Raised status) on 12 November 2000@13:37:15.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented note; added bibliography and keywords) on 12 March 2001@05:53:59.
David Whitehead on 12 March 2001@05:57:31.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added italics; added keyword) on 1 October 2005@17:15:49.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 7 February 2007@06:45:31.
David Whitehead (x-refs; more keywords; cosmetics) on 19 March 2012@06:09:56.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note and link) on 7 October 2013@00:44:23.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword) on 25 July 2015@10:31:47.

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