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Headword:
*tritagwnisth/s
Adler number: tau,1011
Translated headword: third-part-actor, third-part-player
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aeschines in many [passages] is jeered at by
Demosthenes as an actor of tragedies, and he calls him a 'third-part-player',[1] implying a very unesteemed actor, numbering amongst the third-raters.
Greek Original:*tritagwnisth/s: *ai)sxi/nhs e)n polloi=s skw/ptetai u(po\ *dhmosqe/nous w(s u(pokrith\s tragw|diw=n, kai\ tritagwnisth\n au)to/n fhsin, w(s a)dokimw/taton tw=n u(pokritw=n, e)n tri/th| ta/cei katariqmw=n.
Notes:
For this headword in its literal sense see
tau 1012.
[1]
Demosthenes 18.129, 209, 267, etc. (And for something comparable see 19.10: Ischandros acts as 'second-part-player' to
Aeschines.)
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 May 2011@09:39:51.
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