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Headword:
*tribolektra/pela
Adler number: tau,948
Translated headword: coarse rude jests
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It is compounded out of
tri/bolos ["prickly"] and
e)ktra/pelos ["strange"]. [Meaning] hard and trashy and ignorant.
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "not dealing in coarse rude jests in the marketplace, like the [sc. youths] nowadays."[1]
*tribolektra/pela: e)k tou= tribo/lou kai\ e)ktrape/lou su/gkeitai. sklhra\ kai\ a)po/blhta kai\ a)pai/deuta. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: ou) stwmu/llwn kata\ th\n a)gora\n tribolektra/pela, oi(=a/ per oi( nu=n.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the passage quoted, is neuter plural of an adjective only attested in (and coined for) that passage.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1003 (web address 1), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: chronology; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 March 2014@00:47:42.
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