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Headword:
*xau/nwsin
Adler number: chi,151
Translated headword: mystification
Vetting Status: high
Translation: That is, a refutation of lawsuits. "How would this man ever learn evasion of a lawsuit, or a summons, or persuasive mystification?" 'Summons': that is, testimony; 'mystification' [is] a refutation of lawsuits; 'persuasive' [is] like deceit and persuading the listeners with empty speech -- [taken] from to persuade [pei/qein] the suit.[1]
Greek Original:*xau/nwsin: toute/sti lu/sin tw=n dikw=n. pw=s a)\n ma/qoi po/q' ou(=tos a)po/feucin di/khs h)\ klh=sin h)\ xau/nwsin a)napeisthri/an; klh=sin toute/stin marturi/an, xau/nwsin lu/sin tw=n dikw=n, a)napeisthri/an oi(=on a)pa/thn kai\ diake/nw| r(h/mati a)napei/qousan tou\s a)kou/ontas, para\ to\ pei/qein th\n di/khn.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is accusative singular of the noun
xau/nwsis.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 874-5 (web address 1 below) with scholion; see also
alpha 2010,
tau 34.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; law; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 March 2008@17:03:46.
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