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Headword: *glw/tth| polemi/zwn
Adler number: gamma,303
Translated headword: fighting a war with the tongue
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning someone who is] not making war on the tongue itself, but using the tongue like a weapon.
Greek Original:
*glw/tth| polemi/zwn: ou)k au)th=| th=| glw/tth| polemw=n, a)lla\ th=| glw/tth| kaqa/per o(/plw| xrw/menos.
Note:
The headword phrase comes from Aristophanes, Clouds 419 (web address 1), and the pedantic comment is from the scholia there (the dative is instrumental, not an indirect object).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; imagery; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 August 2001@07:27:11.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link) on 5 August 2001@14:26:38.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 21 August 2009@07:25:47.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 21 August 2009@10:45:58.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link, expanded note) on 11 September 2012@02:06:16.
David Whitehead on 28 September 2015@05:34:30.
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