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Headword:
*le/preos
Adler number: lambda,289
Translated headword: Lepreos, Lepreus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "I abominate Lepreos because of Melanthios." This man had leprosy, but he was also ridiculed in comedy for being soft. In addition he was a criminal, a gourmet, and a gossip. [
Aristophanes writes]: "by god, even without seeing it I abominate Lepreos because of Melanthios."
Greek Original:*le/preos: *)aristofa/nhs: bdelu/ttomai to\n *le/preon a)po\ *melanqi/ou. ou(=tos ei)=xe le/pran, e)kwmw|dei=to de\ kai\ ei)s malaki/an. h)=n de\ kai\ kakopra/gmwn kai\ o)yofa/gos kai\ la/los. nh\ to\n qeo/n, o(\s ou)k i)dw\n bdelu/ttomai to\n *le/preon a)po\ *melanqi/ou.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Birds 150-1 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there. See already
lambda 288.
On this Melanthios -- who was also a tragic poet -- see Dunbar ad loc.
Reference:
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; ethics; food; geography; medicine; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 July 2001@07:55:51.
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