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Headword:
*ghgenei=s
Adler number: gamma,226
Translated headword: earth-born (ones)
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] wan and corpse-like [ones]. Or impious and god-battling [ones], because of the Giants. Thus
Aristophanes accuses philosophers in
Clouds: "did you learn these clever things by going to the earth-born ones?"[1] Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "by an earth-born gust", meaning one great enough that it makes earthquakes; for [it was] an ancient supposition that the earth quaked when seized by winds.
Aristophanes [sc. uses the phrase].[2]
Also called "earth-born ones" are those who think earthly thoughts.
*ghgenei=s: w)xrou\s kai\ nekrw/deis. h)\ a)sebei=s kai\ qeoma/xous, dia\ tou\s *gi/gantas. ou(/tw diaba/llei tou\s filoso/fous *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: tau=t' e)/maqes ta\ decia\ ei)/sw parelqw\n para\ tou\s ghgenei=s; kai\, *ghgenei= fush/mati, a)nti\ tou= mega/lw| w(/ste seismou\s poiei=n: a)rxai/a ga\r u(po/noia to\ u(po\ pneuma/twn katexome/nhn sei/esqai th\n gh=n. *)aristofa/nhs. le/gontai kai\ *ghgenei=s, oi( ta\ gh/i+na fronou=ntes.
Notes:
The headword is accusative plural, extracted from the quotation given.
cf. generally
gamma 225.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 852-3 (web address 1 below), with comment from the
scholia there.
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Frogs 825, where this phrase does occur. See also
sigma 291.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; mythology; philosophy; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 June 2003@00:51:51.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added keyword; cosmetics) on 6 June 2003@03:39:47.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; more keywords; tweaking) on 7 June 2012@04:52:19.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, upgraded link) on 8 September 2012@23:24:43.
David Whitehead on 28 September 2015@03:31:29.
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