"With well-rounded words": [meaning] with persuasive [ones], or cunning [ones].[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "he quickly beats [sc. the old man] by engaging with well-rounded words."[2]
*stroggu/lois: stroggu/lois r(h/masi: piqanoi=s, h)\ panou/rgois. *)aristofa/nhs: e)s ta/xos pai/ei, cuna/ptwn stroggu/lois toi=s r(h/masi.
The headword is an adjective is the masculine and neuter dative plural; see LSJ s.v.
stroggu/los,
round, spherical, but metaphorically
well-rounded, terse, compact. The entry is generated from an instance of the headword in the quotation twice given; see notes below.
[1] The initial gloss anticipates a phrase from the quotation later given in full. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that mss GFM here do not repeat the headword.] The other glossing adjectives are the same form as the lemma, but from, respectively, the adjectives
piqano/s (
persuasive, plausible; cf.
pi 1572 and
pi 1574) and
pa/nourgos (
ready for anything, wicked, crafty, cunning; cf.
pi 212); see LSJ s.vv. and the
scholia vetera to the quotation.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 686 (web address 1), already at
pi 874. The Chorus-Leader protests what might well be an old man's courtroom predicament.
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