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Headword:
*ou)de\n
de\
oi(=on
e)/st'
a)kou=sai
tw=n
e)pw=n
Adler number: omicron,786
Translated headword: there is nothing like hearing the verses
Vetting Status: high
Translation: That is, there is nothing now preventing us listening to the oracles. This is how they used to refer to something advantageous. 'Nothing like' [means] nothing preventing.
Greek Original:*ou)de\n de\ oi(=on e)/st' a)kou=sai tw=n e)pw=n: toute/stin ou)de\n kwlu/on e)sti\ kai\ nu=n a)kou=sai tw=n xrhsmw=n. ou(/tws e)/legon to\ lusitelou=n. ou)de\n oi(=on, ou)de\n kwlu/on.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Birds 966 (with
ei)sakou=sai for the Suda's
e)st' a)kou=sai: web address 1), with scholion.
cf. already
omicron 784, with other classical instances of this rare idiom -- misunderstood, as Dunbar 543 notes, by the ancient commentators.
Reference:
N. Dunbar (ed.). Aristophanes: Birds (OUP 1995)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 May 2010@05:38:44.
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