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Headword:
*ma\
*di/a
Adler number: mu,31
Translated headword: by Zeus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Not saying [this] in the sense of
ma\ to\n *di/a, as some suppose: but they used to use it instead of
ma\ *di/a, just as [they used]
nh\ *di/a in the sense of
nai/ ["yes"]. Therefore they say both
nai\ *di/a and
nai\ ma\ *di/a.[1]
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "yes by Zeus and many more things than these". The [phrase]
ma\ *di/a [is used] in application to an affirmative oath, when
nai/ is put before it.[2]
*ma\ *di/a: ou)k e)pi\ tou= ma\ to\n *di/a le/gwn, w(s oi)/ontai/ tines: e)xrw=nto de\ au)tw=| a)nti\ tou= ma\ *di/a, w(/sper kai\ tw=| nh\ *di/a e)pi\ tw=| nai/: o(/qen kai\ nai\ *di/a le/gousin kai\ nai\ ma\ *di/a. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: nai\ ma\ *di/a tou/twn te pollw=| plei/ona. e)pi\ katwmotikou= to\ ma\ *di/a, o(/tan au)tou= prota/tthtai to\ nai/.
Notes:
cf. generally
mu 1; also
mu 12,
nu 349,
nu 350.
[1] Likewise (though with the preferable
"they used to say" rather than
le/gwn in the opening clause) in
Photius,
Lexicon mu15 Theodoridis.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 187 (web address 1), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 December 2003@23:03:12.
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