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Headword: *sapro/s
Adler number: sigma,105
Translated headword: decrepit, worn-out
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Also applied to someone/something ancient.[1] "[He has become] Simonides? [How?] [Because], old and worn-out as he is, for the sake of a profit he would sail even on a wickerwork mat." That is, a bundle of firewood.[2]
Greek Original:
*sapro/s: kai\ e)pi\ tou= palaiou=. *simwni/dhs; ge/rwn w)\n kai\ sapro\s ke/rdous e(/khti ka)\n e)pi\ r(ipo\s ple/oi. toute/sti fruga/nou.
Notes:
[1] So already iota 690, sigma 103, sigma 104.
[2] Aristophanes, Peace 698-9 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. rho 184.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; botany; comedy; definition; ethics; imagery; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 November 2010@11:10:43.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, link, status) on 21 November 2010@12:24:08.
David Whitehead (another headword, another x-ref) on 22 November 2010@03:35:33.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 10 October 2013@00:04:05.
David Whitehead on 20 December 2013@06:20:47.
David Whitehead on 20 December 2013@06:28:07.
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