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Headword:
*)ololu/zei
o(
ge/rwn
Adler number: omicron,194
Translated headword: the old man keens
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [The old man keens], looking at his [sc.
Agathon's] effeminacy and salaciousness.
Greek Original:*)ololu/zei o( ge/rwn, ei)s th\n qhlu/thta au)tou= kai\ lagnei/an a)poble/pwn.
Notes:
From the
scholia on
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 129. (The old man in question is the character Mnesilochos.)
[In the
Ravenna codex a phrase very like this lemma (
o)lolu/zeis ge/rwn) actually appears in
Aristophanes' text, but modern editors ignore it.]
On
o)lolu/gein as characteristic of women, see
omicron 191.
Keywords: biography; comedy; gender and sexuality; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 December 2009@01:00:22.
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