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Headword: *)emphdh=sai
Adler number: epsilon,1014
Translated headword: to jump on
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[They] convicting Kleon the cormorant of bribery and of theft".[1]
"I did not dare to jump on him again when he was down". That is, I was [not so] rash.[2]
Greek Original:
*)emphdh=sai. *kle/wna to\n la/ron dw/rwn e(lo/ntes kai\ kloph=s. ou)k e)tolmhs' au)=qis e)mphdh=sai au)tw=| keime/nw|. toute/stin e)kore/sqhn.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Clouds 591. The true gloss comes in an earlier line from this play (see the next note); this present one does not do much beyond naming Kleon (kappa 1731) as the individual concerned.
[2] Aristophanes, Clouds 550, with scholion.
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; economics; ethics; imagery; law; politics; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 November 2000@05:00:51.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 18 September 2002@00:55:14.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 18 September 2002@04:23:41.
David Whitehead (supplemented tr; more keywords) on 19 August 2012@05:27:26.
David Whitehead on 28 December 2015@07:59:53.
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