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Headword:
*spi/ttalos
Adler number: sigma,949
Translated headword: Spittalos, Pittalos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An eminent doctor in
Athens.
Aristophanes [writes]: "go away to the [likes] of Spittalos. But you, drop me a morsel of peace [into] this [little tube]".[1] That is [into] a bronze or silver vessel -- the sort of things doctors have.
*spi/ttalos: i)atro\s para\ *)aqhnai/ois do/kimos. *)aristofa/nhs: a)/pelqe pro\s tou= *spitta/lou. su\ d' a)lla/ moi stalagmo\n ei)rh/nhs e)/nstacon toutoni/. toute/sti xalkou=n h)\ a)rgurou=n: oi(/ous e)/xousin oi( i)atroi/.
Notes:
Besides the quotation given here, he is mentioned later in the same play (line 1222) and again in a later one (
Wasps 1432)
[1] An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1032-34 (which has "cry" instead of this "go away" -- and the name should be not Spittalos but Pittalos), with comment from the
scholia there. See web address 1.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; geography; imagery; medicine; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 November 2001@07:35:49.
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