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Headword:
Ma
Dia
Adler number: mu,31
Translated headword: by Zeus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Not saying [this] in the sense of
ma\ to\n *di/a, as some suppose: but they used to use it instead of
ma\ *di/a, just as [they used]
nh\ *di/a in the sense of
nai/ ["yes"]. Therefore they say both
nai\ *di/a and
nai\ ma\ *di/a.[1]
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "yes by Zeus and many more things than these". The [phrase]
ma\ *di/a [is used] in application to an affirmative oath, when
nai/ is put before it.[2]
Ma Dia: ouk epi tou ma ton Dia legôn, hôs oiontai tines: echrônto de autôi anti tou ma Dia, hôsper kai tôi nê Dia epi tôi nai: hothen kai nai Dia legousin kai nai ma Dia. Aristophanês Ploutôi: nai ma Dia toutôn te pollôi pleiona. epi katômotikou to ma Dia, hotan autou protattêtai to nai.
Notes:
cf. generally
mu 1; also
mu 12,
nu 349,
nu 350.
[1] Likewise (though with the preferable
"they used to say" rather than
le/gwn in the opening clause) in
Photius,
Lexicon mu15 Theodoridis.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 187 (web address 1), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 December 2003@23:03:12.
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