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Headword:
*ti/tqai
Adler number: tau,687
Translated headword: wet-nurses
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "and then just like the wet-nurses you feed badly." This [i.e.
ti/tqai] is what they call those who feed the children with their breasts and their milk: because the children are not able to eat their food whole, these women having chewed [it], in this way after preparing the eatables, taking [them] out of their own mouth put [them] into [the mouths] of the children. Then it happens that the ignorant [women] give little to the children but eat up the larger part themselves. Thus Kleon granting little to the people used to make more profit; "for chewing you put a small [amount] in [for the people], but yourself drew out three times that."
Greek Original:*ti/tqai: *)aristofa/nhs: ka)=|q' w(/sper ai( ti/tqai ge siti/zeis kakw=s. ou(/tw kalou=ntai ai( [para\] toi=s titqi/ois kai\ tw=| ga/lakti tre/fousai ta\ paidi/a: ai(/tines dia\ to\ mh\ du/nasqai ta\ paidi/a o(loklh/rous ta\s trofa\s e)sqi/ein, diamasw/menai, ou(/tw meta\ to\ katerga/sasqai ta\ e)de/smata, e)cai/rousai tou= i)di/ou sto/matos, e)ntiqe/asi toi=s tw=n paidi/wn. ei)=ta sumbai/nei ta\s a)gnw/monas o)li/ga me\n dido/nai toi=s paidi/ois, au)ta\s de\ katesqi/ein ta\ plei/ona. ou(/tw o( *kle/wn o)li/ga me\n tw=| dh/mw| xarizo/menos ta\ plei/w e)ke/rdaine: masw/menos ga\r tw=| me\n o)li/gon e)ntiqei=s, au)to\s de\ e)kei/nou tripla/sion kate/spakas.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Knights 716 and 717-718, with scholion. The headword, extracted from the passage, is nominative plural; for the singular see
tau 688.
For Kleon see generally
kappa 1731. The present charge against him is made by his opponent in the play, the sausage-seller.
Keywords: biography; children; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; imagery; politics; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 February 2014@01:10:31.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 21 February 2014@03:27:54.
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