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Headword: *pe/nte ta/lanq' h( *xi/wn po/lis dia\ to\n prwkto\n o)flh/sei
Adler number: pi,977
Translated headword: the city of Chios will have to pay five talents because of your arse
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes is ridiculing these men as being unwholesomely effete; and with their arses, because of unwholesomeness, being rather wide and ready for defecation.
Greek Original:
*pe/nte ta/lanq' h( *xi/wn po/lis dia\ to\n prwkto\n o)flh/sei: tou/tous w(s a)krasi/an malaki/as e)/xontas skw/ptei *)aristofa/nhs: kai\ dia\ malaki/an tw=n prwktw=n eu)rute/rwn o)/ntwn kai\ e(toi/mwn pro\s to\ a)popatei=n.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Peace 171-2 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there.
Ancient and modern commentators alike struggle to unravel the joke(s) here, and/or any serious intent behind them. In addition to the modern commentaries (Platnauer, Olson, et al.) ad loc., see e.g. Quinn (below) 86 n.15.
For Chios see generally chi 316.
Reference:
T.J. Quinn, Athens and Samos, Chios and Lesbos 478-404 BC (Manchester 1981)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; economics; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; history; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 June 2001@05:30:53.
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