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Headword:
*th/lefos
e)k
phridi/ou
Adler number: tau,494
Translated headword: Telephos [living] out of a little pouch
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man was a poor man.
Aristophanes [writes]: "and yet previously you were a pauper, claiming to be Telephos [sc. living] out of a little pouch".[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Telepheian wound'.[2]
*th/lefos e)k phridi/ou: ou(=tos pe/nhs h)=n. *)aristofa/nhs: kai/toi pro/tero/n g' e)ptw/xeues, *th/lefos ei)=nai fa/skwn, e)k phridi/ou. kai\ *thle/feion trau=ma.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 921-3 (web address 1), with scholion; see already at
pi 1535. (The comment is barely adequate: T. [cf. under
kappa 1444] was actually a king of
Mysia who, in
Euripides' tragedy of that name, had appeared disguised as a beggar at the court of Agamemnon.)
[2] Only in lexicography.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; economics; geography; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 March 2010@05:57:07.
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