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Headword: *ma/qhma
Adler number: mu,42
Translated headword: learning, lesson
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] pursuit, occupation, mode of life, way of life, allegation, [something] from which we are likely to spend time in connection with our affairs. But to learn better [metamaqei=n] is to cease. Strictly speaking they used to describe as 'learning better' learning something else after these things, having abandoned what was first. Aristophanes in Plutus [writes]: "and would you not learn better?"
Greek Original:
*ma/qhma: e)pith/deuma, a)sxo/lhma, di/aita, diagwgh/, pro/fasis, a)f' h(=s me/llomen peri\ ta\ pra/gmata diatri/bein. metamaqei=n de/ e)stin to\ pau/sasqai. kuri/ws de\ metamaqei=n e)/legon to\ meta\ tau=ta e(/tero/n ti maqei=n, a)fe/menon tou= prw/tou. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: ou)d' a)\n metama/qois;
Note:
Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 924, with scholion. See also mu 707.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 6 January 2007@18:06:34.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 7 January 2007@08:42:18.
David Whitehead on 26 April 2013@06:54:48.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 27 June 2020@23:08:38.

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