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Headword: *ai)boi=
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:
*ai)boi=: sxetliastiko\n e)pi/rrhma. ta/ttetai de\ kai\ e)pi\ h(donh=s para\ *)aristofa/nei e)n *)/ornisin: ai)boi=: ou)k e)/stin ou)de\n tou= pe/tesqai gluku/teron.
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.
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