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Headword:
*pai=
Adler number: pi,835
Translated headword: boy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "What is it, boy? for boy is the right thing to call someone one beats, even if he is an old man".
Greek Original:*pai=: *)aristofa/nhs: ti/ d' e)sti/n, w)= pai=; pai=da ga/r, ka)\n h)=| ge/rwn, kalei=n di/kaion, o(/stis a)\n plhga\s la/bh|.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1297-98 (where commentators suppose that an extract from tragedy, opening like this, is being parodied). See web address 1.
For the boy/slave ambiguity of
pais cf.
pi 850 (and see also
pi 862).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: children; comedy; daily life; ethics; law; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 May 2004@06:18:58.
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