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Headword:
Perithetos
Adler number: pi,1165
Translated headword: prosthetic
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] mask.
Aristophanes [writes]: "a sweeter thing, then, is a prosthetic head, which I wear at night."[1]
Agathon[2] is being lampooned for effeminacy, so that he can pass for a woman at night and play the passive role.
Perithetos: prosôpon. Aristophanês: hêdion men oun kephalê perithetos, hên egô nuktôr phorô. diaballetai de Agathôn epi malakiai, hina lanthanêi nuktos hôs gunê kai paschêi.
Notes:
[1] A misquotation of
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazousai 257-8. The original has
h(di/ ("this here") rather than
h(di/on ("a sweeter thing"). The comments are from the
scholia to the passage, but slightly garbled as well: the original reads, "so that he can go incognito at night and play the passive role as a woman" (
kai\ w(s gunh/ rather than
w(s gunh\ kai/).
[2]
alpha 124.
Translated by: William Hutton on 4 October 2011@09:31:11.
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