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Headword:
*)aposiw/phsis
Adler number: alpha,3521
Translated headword: aposiopesis, clamming up, sudden silence
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A type of [rhetorical] figure; as in
Aristophanes: "... o by no means!"[1] There is is also [something] similar in
Demosthenes. "O - but what should someone say to describe you correctly?"[2] For after [
Aristophanes] had said "by no means" he said "o by no means!"
*)aposiw/phsis: sxh/matos ei)=dos: w(s para\ *)aristofa/nei: w)= mhdamw=s. e)/sti de\ kai\ para\ *dhmosqe/nei to\ o(/moion. a)ll' w)= ti/ a)/n se/ tis proseipw\n o)rqw=s prosei/poi; ei)rhko/tos ga\r au)tou= mhdamw=s, ei)=pen, w)= mhdamw=s.
Notes:
cf.
omega 86 (a rare instance of a cross-reference missed by Adler).
[1]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 334 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
[2]
Demosthenes 18.22 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 June 2001@18:54:00.
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