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Headword:
*pw=s
dokei=s
Adler number: pi,2185
Translated headword: can you imagine
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This is said exclamatorily in
Aristophanes, in
Clouds: "and he used to make frogs - can you imagine? - out of pomegranate-rinds".[1] Also, "how shall I and this man here, who do not fly, consort with you who do? - Excellently. - But look here, at what is said in the fables of Aesop, about the vixen which once mixed so disastrously with an eagle. - Never fear: there is a little root which when eaten will give you both wings".[2]
*pw=s dokei=s: qaumastikw=s tou=to le/lektai para\ *)aristofa/nei e)n *nefe/lais: ka)k tw=n sidi/wn batra/xous e)poi/ei, pw=s dokei=s; kai/, pw=s e)/gwge x' ou(tosi\ cuneso/meq' u(mi=n petome/nois ou) petome/nw; kalw=s; o(/ra nu=n, w(s e)n *ai)sw/pou lo/gois e)/stin lego/menon dh/ ti, th\n a)lw/pex' w(s flau/rws e)koinw/nhsen ai)etw=| pote. mhde\n fobhqh=|s: e)/sti ga/r ti r(izi/on, o(\ diatrago/ntes e)sto\n e)pterwme/nw.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 881 (web address 1), here with its scholiastic comment; cf.
sigma 381.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 649-655 (web address 2); cf.
phi 520. For this story see
Archilochus frs. 172-181 West, and generally Dunbar's note. The only apparent pertinence of this quotation to the current headword phrase (which, translated literally, means 'how do you think') is that both contain the word
pw=s ('how'). In verse 655, the Suda misses the dual participle
diatrago/nte and the future dual
e)/sesqon.
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: botany; comedy; definition; poetry; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 October 2001@06:12:22.
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