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Headword:
Komma
Adler number: kappa,1981
Translated headword: stamp, impression, minting
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "but he seems to be [sc. one] of the bad stamp."[1] From a metaphor of coins,[2] struck off out of whole gold. Meaning, to assert [it is] of a paltry content. A bad stamp, [this is] silver that has been falsely struck.[3]
Greek Original:Komma: Aristophanês: eoike d' einai tou ponêrou kommatos. apo metaphoras tôn nomismatôn, ex holou chrusiou apokekommenou. anti tou eipein, phaulou sustêmatos. ponêron komma, ho parakekommenos arguros.
Notes:
The headword, evidently generated by the following quotation, where it appears in the genitive singular, is a neuter noun in the nominative/accusative singular; see LSJ s.v. (and
kappa 1985).
[1]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 982 (web address 1), with
scholia: Just Man makes this on-the-spot assessment of the Informer's character; cf.
pi 2040 (end).
[2] cf.
pi 358 gloss.
[3] cf.
pi 358 lemma and
upsilon 636 (end).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; imagery; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 18 February 2009@01:20:47.
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