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Headword: *selli/zein
Adler number: sigma,210
Translated headword: to Sellus-ize, to act like a Sellus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The [verb that means] to be pretentious. From a certain Sellus who was poor and pretended to be rich.
Greek Original:
*selli/zein: to\ a)lazoneu/esqai. a)po\ *se/llou tino\s pe/nhtos kai\ prospoioume/nou to\ ploutei=n.
Note:
From the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 823, where Aeschines the son of Sellus is mentioned. See more fully at theta 81 and sigma 259 where it is claimed that it was this Aeschines, rather than Sellus himself, who was the poseur.
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; poetry
Translated by: William Hutton on 18 October 2013@09:01:54.
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David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 October 2013@09:22:18.
David Whitehead on 23 December 2013@03:35:49.
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