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Headword:
*tele/as
e)rei=
tadi/
Adler number: tau,254
Translated headword: Teleas will say the following
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "[Teleas will say the following:] 'a man[-bird], unstable, fluttering, inconsistent, never ever staying in the same place'." He is slandering Teleas as a wanderer. Meaning if you ask about unstable people. Teleas was a man inclined to jesting and changeable in his ways; for he used to be slandered for debauchery and cowardice and gluttony and absenteeism and wickedness. And
Plato in
Rabble says [this] about Teleas: "he thinks one set of things but utters another with his tongue."[1] Or [sc. the phrase arises] because a teleas [is] a bird. This Teleas,
Aristophanes is saying, will speak about fluttering birds.
Greek Original:*tele/as e)rei= tadi/. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi: a)/nqrwpos a)sta/qmhtos, peto/menos, a)te/kmartos, ou)de\n ou)de/pot' e)n au)tw=| me/nwn. diaba/llei to\n *tele/an w(s planh/thn. a)nti\ tou= peri\ tw=n petome/nwn e)a\n e)rwth/sh|s. h)=n de\ o( *tele/as skwptiko\s a)/nqrwpos kai\ eu)meta/blhtos tou\s tro/pous: pro\s ga\r th=| kinaidi/a| kai\ deili/a| kai\ o)yofagi/a| kai\ nosfismw=| kai\ ponhri/a| dieba/lleto. kai\ *pla/twn e)n *su/rfaki peri\ tou= *tele/ou fhsi/: noei= me\n e(/tera, e(/tera de\ th=| glw/tth| fqe/ggetai. h)\ o(/ti tele/as o)/rneon. tou\s petome/nous o)/rneis ou(=tos o( *tele/as, *)aristofa/nhs fhsi/n, e)rei=.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Birds 168-170 (here omitting
o)/rnis after
a)/nqrwpos), with scholion; see already at
alpha 4332.
On Teleas, mentioned again at lines 1024-5 (and already in
Peace 1008-9), see Dunbar 189. He was very rich as well as, allegedly, disreputable.
[1]
Plato Comicus fr. 161 Kock (176 K.-A.).
Reference:
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Keywords: biography; comedy; economics; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 March 2010@05:09:26.
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