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Headword:
*au)to/tatos
Adler number: alpha,4529
Translated headword: his very self
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "that man himself? His very self."[1] A pronoun, but played upon comically; for indefinites do not permit superlatives. If then the pronoun is used for "the self", then in accordance with this it does not permit a comparison, as do the other parts [of speech].[2]
Greek Original:*au)to/tatos: *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: e)kei=nos au)to/s; au)to/tatos. a)ntwnumi/a, pe/paiktai de\ kwmikw=s: ta\ ga\r a)o/rista tw=n pragma/twn a)nepi/tata. ei) ou)=n h( a)ntwnumi/a e)pi\ ou)si/as paralamba/netai, kata\ tou=to e)pi/tasin ou) de/xetai, w(s ta\ a)/lla me/rh.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [Plutus] 83 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
[2] An exact parallel for
autotatos here is Latin
ipsissimus (in
Plautus and elsewhere).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 August 2001@02:39:31.
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