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Headword: *tau=ta lhrei=s
Adler number: tau,172
Translated headword: are you talking this rubbish?
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[(Why) are you talking this rubbish,] like someone who has fallen from a tomb?" -- "By Zeus, this [sc. girl] here is your Dardanian".
Greek Original:
*tau=ta lhrei=s, w(/sper a)po\ tu/mbou pesw/n. nh\ to\n *di/', au)th\ pou= 'sti toi/g' h( *dardani/s.
Notes:
An exchange between Philokleon and his son Bdelykleon in Aristophanes, Wasps 1370-1371 (here lacking the opening ti/): web address 1.
The phrase "fallen from a tomb" is a comic version of the proverb noted at alpha 3459.
For "Dardanian" cf. generally delta 69.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; gender and sexuality; geography; proverbs; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 January 2012@06:19:21.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (link, keyword, status) on 2 January 2012@12:43:36.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 3 January 2012@03:14:33.
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