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Headword: *keime/nous
Adler number: kappa,1474
Translated headword: lying
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning them] being punished. Aristophanes in Frogs [writes]: "and in this [dung men] are lying".
Greek Original:
*keime/nous: kolazome/nous. *)aristofa/nhs *batra/xois: e)n de\ tou/tw| keime/nous.
Note:
Part of Heracles' description of the underworld in Aristophanes, Frogs 145-7, at 146 ("[then a great slough of ever-flowing dung, and in this [men] are lying, anyone who ever wronged his guest"), with over-explicit comment from the scholia there. (Lying in dung would indeed count as punishment, but the gloss only applies to that context.)
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; mythology; religion
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 12 October 2008@11:25:58.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; augmented and modified notes; more keywords) on 13 October 2008@03:31:29.
David Whitehead on 20 February 2013@06:31:23.

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