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Headword:
*xarina/dhs
Adler number: chi,115
Translated headword: Charinades
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name. This man was sluggish. And [sc. thereby arose] a proverb: 'Charinades is better than you at walking'. In reference to those making slow progress.
Greek Original:*xarina/dhs: o)/noma ku/rion. ou(=tos nwqh\s h)=n. kai\ paroimi/a: krei/ttwn e)sti/ sou *xarina/dhs badi/zein. e)pi\ tw=n braduno/ntwn e)n th=| porei/a|.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Wasps 232 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there. For Charinades see also
Peace 1155 (and LGPN ii s.v. no.1, where he is not regarded as a real person).
No such proverb appears in the paroemiographic collections; rather, here as occasionally elsewhere, 'proverb' = a more or less noteworthy phrase in
Aristophanes.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; ethics; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 April 2003@09:37:04.
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