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Headword: *shmei=on
Adler number: sigma,325
Translated headword: sign, signal
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning that] through which uncertainties are apprehended among the Sceptics; something that they refute through syllogisms.[1]
Also, when an assembly-meeting was going to happen [sc. in classical Athens], a signal was given -- which is why when the women in Thesmophoriazusae were planning to meet in assembly, a signal was given. Aristophanes [writes]: "for the signal of the assembly-meeting in the Thesmophor[ei]on is being shown".[2]
Greek Original:
*shmei=on: di' ou(= ta\ a)/dhla katalamba/netai para\ toi=s *skeptikoi=s, o(\ a)nairou=si dia\ sullogismw=n. kai\ o(/te de\ e)/melle gi/nesqai e)kklhsi/a, shmei=on e)ti/qeto. ou(/tws ou)=n kai\ tw=n gunaikw=n mellousw=n e)n toi=s *qesmofori/ois e)kklhsia/zein, shmei=on e)te/qh. *)aristofa/nhs: w(s to\ th=s e)kklhsi/as shmei=on e)n tw=| *qesmofo/rw| fai/netai.
Notes:
[1] From Diogenes Laertius 9.96-7, summarized too drastically for comprehension (see web address 1). The argument purports to prove that shmei=a do not exist. For the Sceptics cf. under mu 115, omicron 802, pi 3241.
[2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriaziousai 277-78 (web address 2), preceded by comment from the scholia there. (Precisely what the signal was is not clear, either from this passage or from any of the other pieces of evidence which bear upon the matter: Wasps 690, Andoc. 1.36.)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; constitution; definition; law; philosophy; religion; rhetoric; stagecraft; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 November 2001@05:03:36.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, link, status) on 12 December 2004@21:15:09.
David Whitehead (typo) on 13 December 2004@03:02:33.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 1 January 2008@10:33:22.
David Whitehead on 23 December 2013@09:18:49.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note, added a link) on 12 February 2022@00:58:21.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 12 February 2022@21:30:29.

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