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Headword:
*tufoge/rwn
Adler number: tau,1219
Translated headword: dotard, old fool
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a man] in extreme old age; or [one who is] arrogant;[1] a deluded old man.[2]
Greek Original:*tufoge/rwn: e)sxato/ghrws: h)\ u(perh/fanos: tetufwme/nos ge/rwn.
Notes:
The headword
tufoge/rwn is a comic term: see LSJ entry at web address 1, and notes below.
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 908 (where Better Argument calls his opponent Worse Argument this). For the first gloss, see LSJ entry at web address 2; also under
epsilon 2742 and esp.
tau 1157.
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 335, where the term reappears; cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 772.56.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; medicine; poetry
Translated by: Patrick Hogan on 28 December 2012@19:57:05.
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