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Headword: *leukh/ tis a)neph/dhs' o(/moios *niki/a|
Adler number: lambda,326
Translated headword: someone white like Nikias sprang up
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
This Nikias was effeminate.
Greek Original:
*leukh/ tis a)neph/dhs' o(/moios *niki/a|: ou(=tos gunaikw/dhs h)=n o( *niki/as.
Notes:
A misquotation of Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 428 (where the "someone" is not feminine, as here, but masculine, after the noun "youth"; see web address 1). Comment from the scholia on the line follows.
This early-fourth-century (BCE) Nikias is taken to be a grandson of the ill-fated general of that name (kappa 1731, lambda 557, mu 534, nu 389, pi 542, upsilon 217).
Reference:
J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971) 406.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 July 2001@07:49:40.
Vetted by:
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added link; cosmetics; set status) on 1 November 2003@21:54:38.
David Whitehead (more x-refs; bibliography) on 2 November 2003@09:15:32.
David Whitehead on 15 April 2013@07:51:12.
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