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Headword:
*makrou/s
Adler number: mu,81
Translated headword: long
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "I will not listen to you speaking long speeches." He is not saying I will not let slip the long [ones], but I will listen to those spoken briefly; rather, that all speeches are created long when judged relative to actions, if they are enacted.[1]
Greek Original:*makrou/s: sou= d' e)gw\ lo/gous le/gontos ou)k a)kou/somai makrou/s. ou) le/gei, o(/ti tou\s makrou\s ou) proh/somai, a)kou/somai de\ tou\s dia\ suntomi/as legome/nous: a)ll' o(/ti pa/ntes lo/goi makroi\ pefu/kasi krino/menoi pro\s pra=cin, ei) pe/praktai.
Notes:
The headword, masculine accusative plural of this adjective, is extracted from the quotation.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 303 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there. (NB: both there and again here, the transmitted
proh/somai "let slip" in the comment needs to be emended to
prosh/somai "accept".) Less awkwardly: as regards Dicaeopolis consorting with the Laconians, any speeches he offers to defend himself are too long from the outset, as far as the chorus of Acharnians is concerned. The word order of the passage emphasises "long", and is open to the interpretation "I will not hear the
long speeches (but I might hear the short)", as opposed to "I will not hear the
all too long speeches".
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; rhetoric
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 12 April 2009@07:10:12.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (tweaks to tr; expanded note; another keyword; cosmetics) on 12 April 2009@07:41:51.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; tweaking) on 29 April 2013@04:35:39.
Catharine Roth (added a link) on 30 June 2020@00:46:49.
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