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Headword: *k' ou)dei/s
Adler number: kappa,2175
Translated headword: and no-one
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[And no-one] could persuade me not to go and get him." The (?)choice [is] of Sophocles.
Greek Original:
*k' ou)dei/s me g' a)\n pei/sh| to\ ou)k e)lqei=n e)p' e)kei/nou. *sofokle/ous h( diai/resis.
Notes:
This entry initially baffled Adler, who confined herself to reporting that it appears only in ms F. But in her consolidated addenda and corrigenda she pointed out (following Maas) that the quotation here is an approximation of what Dionysus says -- about fetching Euripides from the underworld -- in Aristophanes, Frogs 68: k'oudei/s ge m' a)\n pei/seien a)nqrw/pwn to\ mh\ ou)k e)lqei=n e)p' e)kei=non. See web address 1.
The point of the lexicographer's comment is then obscured by the several possible senses of the noun diairesis. Grammatical? (But k'oudei/s is crasis, not diairesis.) I tentatively construe diairesis as hairesis, "choice", i.e. an (erroneous) attempt to gloss Dionysus' "him".
For Sophocles see generally sigma 815; for Euripides, epsilon 3695.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 December 2008@10:59:05.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 14 December 2008@22:47:40.
David Whitehead (x-refs) on 15 December 2008@03:22:50.
David Whitehead on 13 March 2013@10:31:00.
David Whitehead on 3 February 2014@04:51:45.

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