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Headword: *ou) mh\ lhrh/sh|s
Adler number: omicron,919
Translated headword: do not talk nonsense
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] will you not stop talking nonsense?[1]
Greek Original:
*ou) mh\ lhrh/sh|s: ou) pau/sh| lhrw=n;
Notes:
In dramatic contexts, the sequence ou) mh/ of the headword phrase, followed by a second person subjunctive, expresses strong prohibition (Smyth, 1800c (note)). Here the verb is indeed the aorist subjunctive active, second person singular, of lhre/w (I talk nonsense, am foolish); see LSJ s.v. The entry is generated by an instance of this expression (although some manuscripts transmit the alternative spelling lhrh/seis; Dover, p. 26 and pp. 140-1) at Aristophanes, Clouds 367 (web address 1). See on Bernhardy in omicron 918, and further, next note.
[1] Except for the participle, which is fluarw=n (prattling; see LSJ s.v. fluare/w), the scholion to Aristophanes, Clouds 367 (web address 1) is the same.
References:
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956
K.J. Dover, ed., Aristophanes Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 24 June 2010@01:40:50.
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