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Headword: *terateuo/menos
Adler number: tau,328
Translated headword: talking marvels
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he] telling a falsehood, and saying nothing true or sound.[1]
"[They] talking marvels and boasting, as if the cognition of the place were useful for many things."[2]
Greek Original:
*terateuo/menos: yeudo/menos, kai\ mhde\n a)lhqe\s mhde\ u(gie\s le/gwn. terateuo/menoi kai\ kompa/zontes, w(s ei)s polla\ ei)/h xrh/simos h( tou= to/pou kata/lhyis.
Notes:
cf. generally tau 329, tau 330.
[1] cf. a scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 627, where the headword -- present participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb terateu/omai -- occurs (web address 1).
[2] Quotation (already under epsilon 889) unidentifiable. Valckenaer attributed it to Aelian, but Bernhardy disagreed.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 3 January 2007@20:44:39.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, augmented notes, added link and keyword, set status) on 3 January 2007@22:06:25.
David Whitehead (expanded notes) on 4 January 2007@03:10:41.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 12 August 2011@08:24:27.
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