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Headword:
*ai)/simos
Adler number: alphaiota,320
Translated headword: Aisimos, Aesimus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A lame and dishonored and unlearned man.
Aristophanes [writes]: "examine, each of you, what he will gain, as the community is tossed about just like Aisimos."
*ai)/simos: o( xwlo\s kai\ a)/timos kai\ a)maqh/s. *)aristofa/nhs: skopei=sq' e(/kastos o(/ ti kerdanei=: to\ de\ koino/n, w(/sper *ai)/simos kuli/ndetai.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 207, with comment from the
scholia there.
For Aisimos, prominent in Athenian politics in the decade or so after 404 BCE, see also (e.g.)
Lysias 13.80-82, and Strauss index s.v.
Reference:
Barry Strauss, Athens after the Peloponnesian War (1986)
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; medicine; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝ on 19 March 2003@15:12:48.
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