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Headword:
*)eloidorou/meqa
Adler number: epsilon,917
Translated headword: we were vituperating
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] we were engaging in strife, such that out of competitiveness we turned to vituperation.
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "we were vituperating each other over the name."[1]
Agathias [writes]: "and indeed all were vituperating Narses, calling him a blowhard and a scoundrel, and in fact saying that he was a violent person and a murderer, and that otherwise his reputation for always being pious and subservient to the divine was nothing but show."[2]
*)eloidorou/meqa: e)stasia/zomen, w(s u(po\ th=s filoneiki/as e)s loidori/as traph=nai. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: peri\ tou)no/matos e)loidorou/meqa. *)agaqi/as: kai\ dh\ tw=| *narsh=| pa/ntes e)loidorou=nto a)lazo/na te a)pokalou=ntes kai\ a)ta/sqalon, kai\ e)/rgw| me\n au)to\n ei)=nai le/gontes bi/aio/n te kai\ miaifo/non, th\n de\ tou= eu)sebei=n a)ei\ kai\ to\ qei=on qerapeu/ein do/can a)/llws au)tw=| kekomyeu=sqai.
Notes:
For the headword verb see the cross-references under
epsilon 916.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 62 (web address 1), with comments from the
scholia thereto.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 25 Keydell (1.12 p. 40 Niebuhr), the citizens of
Luca (modern-day
Lucca, in central Italy) react to the Byzantine general Narses's feigned execution of a group of Lucchesi hostages during the Gothic War (535-554 CE); cf. Frendo (20). For Narses see
nu 42. See also
alpha 457,
alpha 1709, and
mu 707 for further context.
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; military affairs; politics; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 9 February 2007@11:29:02.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 11 February 2007@04:35:52.
Catharine Roth (adjusted link) on 11 February 2007@16:42:59.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 15 August 2012@04:58:45.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@00:52:46.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 18 October 2023@23:32:27.
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