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Headword:
*)ore/sths
Adler number: omicron,538
Translated headword: Orestes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man used to fake madness and strip the passers-by; for he was a cloak-thief. Or by way of a nickname, meaning raving like Orestes.[1] And [there is] a saying: 'to weave a cloak for Orestes'.[2] "For if any mortal were to meet the hero Orestes in the night, he would be naked after being struck by him all on the right side."[3] Heroes were wrathful and harsh to those who approached them; this is also why those who entered hero shrines used to do so in silence. But "on the right side": that is, the right side of the field of vision; for those who encountered Orestes were struck. Not [Orestes] the son of Agamemnon but a certain cloak-thief. Or "on the right side": eyes and head. Or because those who encounter heroes during the night used to avert their eyes.
Greek Original:*)ore/sths: ou(=tos prospoiou/menos mani/an tou\s pario/ntas a)pe/duen: h)=n ga\r lwpodu/ths. h)\ kata\ proswnumi/an, a)nti\ tou= maino/menos w(s o( *)ore/sths. kai\ paroimi/a: *)ore/sth| xlai=nan u(fai/nein. ei) ga\r e)ntu/xoi tis h(/rw| tw=n brotw=n nu/ktwr *)ore/sth|, gumno\s h)=n plhgei\s u(p' au)tou= pa/nta ta)pide/cia. oi( h(/rwes duso/rghtoi kai\ xalepoi\ toi=s e)mpela/zousin e)gi/nonto: dio\ kai\ oi( ta\ h(rw=|a pario/ntes e)si/gwn. e)pide/cia de/, toute/sti ta\ decia\ th=s o)/yews: e)plh/ttonto ga\r oi( e)ntugxa/nontes tw=| *)ore/sth|: ou)xi\ de\ tw=| *)agame/mnonos, a)lla\ lwpodu/th| tini/. h)\ e)pide/cia, o)fqalmou\s kai\ kefalh/n. h)\ o(/ti oi( e)ntugxa/nontes nukto\s h(/rwsi die/strefon ta\s o)/yeis.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1167; see already
omicron 537.
[2] (As in several other instances of comedy quoted in the Suda, this 'saying' is not in the paroemiographers.)
Aristophanes,
Birds 712. Dunbar ad loc. has a long and careful note, disentangling O. the mythological hero from O. the clothes-robber and also arguing for the translation given here.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Birds 1490-2, followed here by material; from the
scholia there.
Nan Dunbar (ed.), Aristophanes: Birds (O.U.P. 1995)
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; imagery; law; mythology; poetry; proverbs; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: William Hutton on 23 February 2010@22:30:12.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (tweaked tr; augmented notes; another keyword) on 24 February 2010@04:12:19.
David Whitehead (fixed note numbering; other cosmetics) on 7 July 2013@08:24:48.
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