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Headword:
*oi(=on
Adler number: omicroniota,146
Translated headword: how, such
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Expression] of amazement.[1]
"You will never again see this man -- I make a great boast -- such [a one as ...]."[2]
Aristophanes [writes as follows] about Kleon: "How the cursed man eats bending over!" By the expression he indicates the man's gluttony. For of men and other creatures those who most often bend over and lie down for their food seem to eat insatiably and greedily.[3]
*oi(=on: to\ qaumastiko/n. ou)k e)/t' a)/ndra mh\ to/nd' i)/dht': e)/pos e)cere/w meg', oi(=on. *)aristofa/nhs peri\ *kle/wnos: oi(=on de\ ku/yas o( kata/ratos e)sqi/ei. dia\ tou= sxh/matos th\n a)dhfagi/an au)tou= dhloi=. kai\ ga\r tw=n a)nqrw/pwn kai\ tw=n qremma/twn oi( ma/lista toi=s e)de/smasin e)gkekufo/tes kai\ proskei/menoi dokou=sin a)plh/stws kai\ perispouda/stws e)sqi/ein.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (references at
Photius omicron139 Theodoridis), and cf. a scholion on
Plato,
Gorgias 481B.
[2] From a choral ode at
Sophocles,
Ajax 421-3 (web address 1).
[3]
Aristophanes,
Peace 33 (web address 2), and scholion. For Kleon see generally
kappa 1731.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 January 2004@00:00:11.
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