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Headword:
*tri/mma
Adler number: tau,989
Translated headword: smooth, smoothie
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] someone practised [literally: smoothed] in matters. Also in
Aristophanes in
Clouds: "you will become a smoothie at speaking".[1] That is, practised; you will be competent and skilled in speaking. Also
Demosthenes in the [speech]
On the Crown, when attacking
Aeschines as a reckless and shameless orator, calls him a smoothie of the
agora.[2]
*tri/mma: o( tetrimme/nos e)n toi=s pra/gmasi. kai\ par' *)aristofa/nei e)n *nefe/lais: le/gein genh/sh| tri/mma. toute/sti tetrimme/nos, i(kano\s kai\ deino\s e)/sh| le/gein. kai\ *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| *peri\ tou= stefa/nou w(s i)tamou= kai\ a)naisxu/ntou r(h/toros kaqapto/menos *ai)sxi/nou, peri/trimma a)gora=s au)to\n kalei=.
Notes:
For this headword, a neuter noun, see also
tau 988.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 260 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there.
[2]
Demosthenes 18.127, using the related noun
peritrimma (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; imagery; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 November 2001@06:52:39.
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