[Meaning things which are] passing on.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "stop, stop."[2] For [Hermes] was speaking ill of someone who was dead [i.e. Kleon]. It was a custom among the ancients not to speak ill of those who were passing away.
*)apoixo/mena: parerxo/mena. *)aristofa/nhs: pau=e, pau=e. nekro\n ga\r o)/nta e)loido/rei. e)/qos de\ h)=n toi=s a)rxai/ois tou\s a)poixome/nous mh\ loidorei=n.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. The headword participle must be quoted from somewhere but is not otherwise attested.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Peace 648. Adler, for once, errs, in citing line 326 of the play: the phrase does occur there too, but in a quite different context from the one in question here, which the entry, drawn from the
scholia ad loc., proceeds to elucidate. See also, more explicitly,
pi 805.
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