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Headword: *to\ me\n no/hma th=s qeou=, to\ de\ kle/mm' e)mo/n
Adler number: tau,750
Translated headword: the idea is the goddess's but the theft mine
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
For thus the demagogues used to say wittily that their own thoughts were the goddess's; [as if to say] that the goddess suggested [the idea], but I implemented [it] myself.
Greek Original:
*to\ me\n no/hma th=s qeou=, to\ de\ kle/mm' e)mo/n: ou(/tw ga\r oi( dhmagwgoi\ a)stei+zo/menoi e)/legon ta\s e(autw=n e)pinoi/as th=s qeou=: o(/ti o( me\n qeo\s u(pe/balen, o( e)rgasa/menos d' e)gw/.
Note:
Aristophanes, Knights 1203 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; see already at nu 444.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; ethics; politics; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 February 2006@22:52:28.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 13 February 2006@03:07:42.
David Whitehead on 14 June 2013@11:05:26.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 14 June 2013@11:10:00.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 14 January 2014@06:19:09.

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