[Meaning] more/rather ancient, more/rather foolish.[1]
And
Aristophanes [writes]: "and he says that he will prove the tragedians obsolete in mind, by dancing against them a little later."[2]
*kronikw/tera: a)rxaio/tera, mwro/tera. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: kai\ tou\s tragw|dou/s fhsin a)podei/cein kro/nous to\n nou=n, diorxhso/menos o)li/gon u(/steron.
[1] The headword is comparative of the adjective
kroniko/s, from the name of the god Kronos (cf.
kappa 2467), neuter nominative/accusative plural. Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon, and cf. also the
scholia on
Plato,
Lysis 205C, from where it is taken to be quoted (web address 1), and on
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1480; see next note.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1480 (web address 2). Note that modern editors of
Aristophanes have adopted Richard Bentley's conjecture
tou\s nu=n "contemporary" ('needed to show that Philokleon is not condemning old tragedians like
Thespis': MacDowell) in place of
to\n nou=n "the mind". Also, the participle in
Aristophanes is in the aorist (
diorxhsa/menos) instead of the Suda's future (which occurs at verse 1499).
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