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Headword:
*talaoi/
Adler number: tau,46
Translated headword: enduring
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they] suffering misery. But some make a division, so that it becomes
t' a)laoi/.
Aristophanes in
Birds [sc. uses it].
*talaoi/: tlhpaqei=s. oi( de\ diairou=sin, w(/ste ei)=nai t' a)laoi/. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 687 (see web address 1).
This passage is the only attestation in classical literature of
talao/s as an adjective (it occurs as a proper name), so some ancient critic has suggested reading
t' a)laoi/ "and blind" (cf.
alpha 1071). Modern editors retain
talaoi/.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 March 2010@10:00:28.
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