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Headword: *)/oxhma
Adler number: omicron,1043
Translated headword: conveyance
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A term applicable] not solely to a chariot. Aristophanes [writes]: "and will this not be rightly so, when I mounted on a dung-beetle's conveyance and saved the Greeks."[1] And elsewhere Aristophanes [writes]: "now is this not an insult and a great conceit that I, Dionysos son of Winejug, am walking and toiling, but him [the slave Xanthias] I let ride, in order that he is not distressed, nor even carrying a burden?"[2]
Greek Original:
*)/oxhma: ou)k e)pi\ a(/rmatos mo/nou. *)aristofa/nhs: ou)kou=n dikai/ws, o(/stis ei)s o)/xhma kanqa/rou e)piba\s e)/swsa tou\s *(/ellhnas. kai\ au)=qis *)aristofa/nhs: ei)=t' ou)x u(/bris tau=t' e)sti kai\ pollh\ trufh/, o(/t' e)gw\ me\n ui(o\s w)\n *stamni/ou *dio/nusos badi/zw kai\ ponw=: tou=ton d' o)xw=, i(/na mh\ talaipwroi=to, mhd' a)/xqos fe/roi;
Notes:
cf. generally omicron 1040, omicron 1041.
[1] Aristophanes, Peace 865-867 (web address 1), with scholion.
[2] Aristophanes, Frogs 21-24 (web address 2); cf. upsilon 18.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; stagecraft; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 June 2010@08:24:46.
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