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Headword:
*skelli/ou
ui(o/s
Adler number: sigma,556
Translated headword: Skellias' son
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristokrates/Aristocrates. So
Aristophanes says: "I even loathe Skellias' son", i.e. Aristokrates. Because he speaks thus about Aristokrates, [he is saying] I hate aristocracy, because I even hate Aristokrates; because he was addressed by this name.
*skelli/ou ui(o/s: o( *)aristokra/ths. fhsi\n ou)=n *)aristofa/nhs: kai\ to\n *skelli/ou bdelu/ttomai. h)/goun to\n *)aristokra/thn. dia\ to\n *)aristokra/thn ou(/tw fhsi/, misw= th\n a)ristokrati/an, o(/ti kai\ to\n *)aristokra/thn misw=: o(/ti ke/klhtai tw=| o)no/mati tou/tw|.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Birds 126 (web address 1), with scholion.
Dunbar ad loc. summarises what is known and probable about the public career of this individual, e.g. one of the 10 generals of 413/2 (
Thucydides 8.9.2) and a member of the oligarchic Four Hundred in 411; however, his name will have lent itself to punning like this whatever his actual political inclinations.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 October 2010@10:34:24.
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