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Headword: *qumosofikw/tatos
Adler number: theta,576
Translated headword: spirit-wisest
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes [writes]: "next Ariphrades, by far the spirit-wisest, whom [his father] once swore that he was taught by no one, but learned by himself with his wise nature to use his tongue -- each time he went to the whorehouses!"[1]
Greek Original:
*qumosofikw/tatos: *)aristofa/nhs: ei)=t' *)arifra/dhn, polu/ ti qumosofikw/taton, o(/ntina/ pot' w)/mose maqo/nta para\ mhdeno/s, a)ll' a)po\ sofh=s fu/sews au)to/maton e)kmaqei=n glwttopoiei=n, ei)s ta\ pornei=a ei)sio/nq' e(ka/stote.
Notes:
The headword, masculine nominative singular, is generated by the corresponding accusative in the quotation.
cf. theta 577.
[1] Aristophanes, Wasps 1280-83 (web address 1). On Ariphrades and his womanising cf. alpha 3940, epsiloniota 146, lambda 753.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; children; comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery; poetry; politics; religion; rhetoric; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 20 February 2008@01:51:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplemented tr and note.) on 20 February 2008@03:58:13.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 20 February 2008@03:59:42.
William Hutton (augmented note) on 20 February 2008@09:22:45.
William Hutton (undid my own error) on 21 February 2008@04:51:19.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords) on 7 January 2013@06:50:15.
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