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Headword: *tri/palai
Adler number: tau,1000
Translated headword: long ago, three ages ago
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
An adverb indicative of time. Aristophanes [writes]: "I have been sitting here for three ages wanting to do you a service" -- "But I for ten ages [and twelve ages]. Or a thousand ages, and ages-ages-ages before that. --"But I [in expectation] for thirty thousand ages and [I hate you both] for ages-ages-ages before that."
Greek Original:
*tri/palai: e)pi/rrhma xro/nou dhlwtiko/n. *)aristofa/nhs: tri/palai ka/qhmai boulo/meno/s s' eu)ergetei=n. e)gw\ de\ deka/palai. h)\ xilio/palai, kai\ pro/palai, pa/lai, pa/lai. e)gw\ de\ trismurio/palai kai\ pro/palai, pa/lai, pa/lai.
Notes:
An exchange -- here abridged and with some minor errors -- between Kleon, the Sausage-seller, and Demos in Aristophanes, Knights 1153-7 (web address 1), with scholion to 1153.
The headword appears to be an Aristophanic invention; it is later used by Lucian (Lexiphanes 2).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: chronology; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 May 2011@05:39:22.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 24 May 2011@01:33:29.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 24 May 2011@03:40:38.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 2 October 2013@00:46:21.
David Whitehead on 29 May 2016@05:49:45.
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