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Headword: *)aeronhxei=s
Adler number: alpha,563
Translated headword: air-swimming
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The clouds swimming in the air. Aristophanes [sc. uses the word].
Greek Original:
*)aeronhxei=s: ta\s e)n tw=| a)e/ri nhxome/nas nefe/las. *)aristofa/nhs.
Note:
A slip, here and in ps.-Zonaras. Aristophanes does use this mock-tragic adjective, in Clouds 337, but of birds; a scholiast there simply says "the ones swimming in the air". See web address 1.
Reference:
J. Taillardat, Les Images d' Aristophane (Paris 1965) 431 n.4
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; tragedy
Translated by: Frederick Williams on 27 October 1999@06:33:01.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Added link and keyword.) on 27 September 2000@02:30:53.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added italics) on 28 September 2005@18:10:47.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 12 January 2012@05:04:53.
Catharine Roth (fixed link) on 18 January 2012@12:37:08.
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