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Headword:
*)epilhsmo/taton
Adler number: epsilon,2444
Translated headword: most forgetful, very forgetful
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Idiosyncratically [for]
e)pilhsmone/staton.[1]
Alexis says
e)pilh/smh ['forgetting'],[2]
Cratinus e)pilhsmosu/nh ['forgetfulness'].[3]
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "would you kindly drop dead for the crows, you most forgetful and most gauche old homunculus."[4]
*)epilhsmo/taton: i)di/ws e)pilhsmone/staton. *)/alecis de\ le/gei e)pilh/smh, *krati=nos e)pilhsmosu/nh. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: ou)k e)s ko/rakas a)pofqerh=| e)pilhsmo/taton kai\ skaio/taton gero/ntion.
Notes:
The headword is extracted from the
Aristophanes passage quoted.
[1] cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 361.39. The
scholia to
Aristophanes (see next note) are less ambiguous than the Suda as to which is considered the idiosyncratic form.
[2]
Alexis fr. 315 Kock, now 317 Kassel-Austin.
[3]
Cratinus fr. 410 Kock, now 451 K.-A.
[4]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 789-90 (web address 1), with comments from the
scholia thereto; cf.
sigma 549. On "to the crows," see e.g.
epsilon 3154.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 12 November 2007@18:12:33.
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