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Headword: *ai)cwneu/esqai
Adler number: alphaiota,239
Translated headword: to be an Aixonian, to play the Aixonian
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The [verb that means] to make slanderous accusations.[1] A metaphor from the deme of the Aixoneis;[2] for they are ridiculed in comedy [as] slanderers.
Greek Original:
*ai)cwneu/esqai: to\ kathgorei=n blasfhmou=nta. meth=ktai de\ a)po\ tou= dh/mou tw=n *ai)cwne/wn: bla/sfhmoi ga\r kwmw|dou=ntai.
Notes:
cf. the scholia on Plato, Laches 197C, where the phrase "to be an Aixonian" occurs; Hesychius s.v.; Etymologicum Magnum 36.57.
[1] cf. alphaiota 240, alphaiota 241.
[2] See alphaiota 242.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; philosophy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 September 2000@05:39:52.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics, note, keyword) on 4 September 2002@22:00:18.
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David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 5 September 2002@03:30:38.
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