*ou)k a)\n a)podoi/hs; ou)x, o(/son g' e)moi/ g' ei)de/nai: a)nti\ tou= e)n o(/sw| e)n e)mautw=| ei)mi kai\ oi)=da/ ti. toute/stin ai)sqa/nomai.
The first part of the lemma is the question put to Strepsiades by the First Creditor at
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1252 (web address 1). The verb form here is the aorist optative active, second person singular, of
a)podi/dwmi,
I give, grant, pay back, render what is due; see LSJ s.v. The second part of the lemma is Strepsiades' glib answer in the following line (again see web address 1).
With no hint of any such insincerity,
Theaetetus answers Socrates' provocative question (as to whether the mathematician
Theodorus is a painter) using this expression at
Plato,
Theaetetus 145A (web address 2).
[In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that ms A omitted the first particle
ge (here, elided).]
[1] Following the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1252.
[2] For this absolute sense, see LSJ s.v.
ai)sqa/nomai, II (
I perceive, apprehend).
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