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Headword:
*qei=
Adler number: theta,304
Translated headword: runs
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] flows easily.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "for right now we are neither running nor driving."[2] From the proverb: "but whenever there is money, everything runs [and] is driven."[3] [i.e.] We sail neither by winds nor by oars.[4]
*qei=: eu)ko/lws r(ei=. *)aristofa/nhs: nu=n me\n ga\r ou)/te qe/omen ou)/t' e)lau/nomen. para\ th\n paroimi/an: a)ll' o(/tan a)rgu/rion h)=|, pa/nta qei= ke)lau/netai. ou)/t' a)ne/mois ou)/te kw/pais ple/omen.
Notes:
[1] Third person singular, present indicative active, of
qe/w (cf.
theta 202); presumably extracted from the proverb quoted later in the entry.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 109 (web address 1), with scholion.
[3]
Comica adespota fr. 522 Kock,
Epicharmus fr. 216 Kaibel, now
Anonyma Dorica fr. 17 Kassel-Austin;
Apostolius 12.56.
[4] Also in the scholion (and
Apostolius loc.cit.).
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; imagery; proverbs
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 20 February 2008@22:44:01.
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