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Headword:
*pamphsi/an
Adler number: pi,129
Translated headword: possession-as-a-whole
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] all the property. "You, Sikon and Xenophantes, take up the possession-as-a-whole."[1]
Greek Original:*pamphsi/an: pa=san th\n kth=sin. su\ d', w)= *si/kwn kai\ *ceno/fantes, ai)/resqe th\n pamphsi/an.
Notes:
The headword, a rare feminine noun in the accusative case, is extracted from the quotation given. It is tragedic vocabulary (instances in
Aeschylus and
Euripides), and therefore incongruous in this comedic context.
[1] A heterodox version of
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 867-8 (with a scholiast's comment on the present headword). The mss of
Aristophanes unanimously give the name of the second slave addressed as Parmenon: see web address 1. (The name Xenophantes is otherwise found only in a list of Pythagoreans from
Metapontum; its appearance in the present context is baffling.)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; geography; law; philosophy; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 August 2010@10:13:40.
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