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Headword: *filotimi/a
Adler number: phi,431
Translated headword: ostentation
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] beautiful language. Aristophanes [writes]: "I stood up, o women, to speak with no ostentation, as the two goddesses are my witnesses."
Greek Original:
*filotimi/a: kallileci/a. *)aristofa/nhs: filotimi/a| me\n ou)demia=|, ma\ tw\ qew/, le/cous' a)ne/sthn, w)= gunai=kes.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 383-4 (web address 1) with scholion on this verse. The two goddesses (accusative dual) are Demeter and Persephone; cf. nu 92.
For other meanings of the headword see phi 432.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; religion; rhetoric; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 January 2004@01:03:33.
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