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Headword: Deilakra
Adler number: delta,310
Translated headword: pitiable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "pitiable me, I'm being torn up!"[1] He is mocking a lecherous old woman. Pitiable [means] supremely wretched.
Also [sc. attested is the related term] deilakri/wn, [meaning] he who is supremely cowardly; he who is pitiful, unfortunate; or suffering. The same Aristophanes [writes]: "o craven, o stingy man! You see how I no longer seem to you to be the most iniquitous person."[2]
Greek Original:
Deilakra: Aristophanês Ploutôi: egô de katakeknismai deilakra. skôptei kaprôsan tên graun. deilakra de akrôs athlia. kai Deilakriôn, ho akrôs deilos: ho eleeinos, ho talaipôros: ê ho epiponos. ho autos Aristophanês: ô deilakriôn. ô glischrôn, horais, hôs ouket' einai soi dokô miarôtatos;
Notes:
See also delta 311.
[1] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 973 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there.
[2] Aristophanes, Peace 193-4 (web address 2); cf. gamma 288, mu 1027.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; economics; ethics; gender and sexuality; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 December 2003@16:58:56.
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