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Headword:
*ei)rwneuo/menoi
Adler number: epsiloniota,208
Translated headword: dissembling, perplexing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they who are] jesting.[1] "Perplexing all the nations with the intricacy of expressions and the deviousness of intention."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] ei)rwneu/etai ["he/she/it dissembles"],[3] [meaning] plays a role, pretends.
Greek Original:*ei)rwneuo/menoi: xleua/zontes. pa/nta ta\ e)/qnh r(hma/twn te poikili/a| kai\ tw=| dolerw=| th=s dianoi/as ei)rwneuo/menoi. kai\ *ei)rwneu/etai, kaqupokri/netai, prospoiei=tai.
Notes:
[1] The headword (perhaps, though not necessarily, extracted from the quotation given) is present participle, masculine nominative plural, of
ei)rwneu/omai (see also
epsiloniota 206,
epsiloniota 209). For the gloss cf. the
scholia to
Plato,
Symposium 216E, where the singular participle occurs.
[2]
Menander Protector fr. 19.1 Blockley (174-175; 43 FHG (4.246a)), the retort of the Turkish khan Turxanthus to Roman envoy Valentinus in 576. On Turxanthus see PLRE IIIb s.v. Tourxanthus. On Valentinus see PLRE IIIb s.v. Valentinus(3). See further excerpts from this fragment at
epsilon 659,
epsilon 719,
omicron 84,
pi 2799, and
sigma 413.
[3] Evidently quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include
Aristophanes (
Birds 1211) and
Plato (
Cratylus 384A).
References:
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 June 2005@00:30:48.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (tweaked tr; augmented notes and keywords) on 29 June 2005@02:55:00.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 26 November 2012@09:21:01.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, and keyword) on 5 September 2024@12:21:05.
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