Ἀβελτερώτατοι
most thoughtless, very thoughtless
Translated by Anne Mahoney25 Aug 1998Vetting: high13 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes [writes]: "before this most/very thoughtless men used to sit gaping -- Dolts, Half-wits".1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀβελτερώτατοι· Ἀριστοφάνης· τέως δ' ἀβελτερώτατοι κεχηνότες Μαμμάκυθοι Μελιτίδαι κάθηνται.
Betacode
*)abelterw/tatoi: *)aristofa/nhs: te/ws d' a)belterw/tatoi kexhno/tes *mamma/kuqoi *meliti/dai ka/qhntai.
Notes (1)
- (Entry lacking, Adler reports, in ms S.)↩
Masculine nominative plural of this superlative, evidently from the quotation given. See also alpha 31, alpha 32.- 1Aristophanes, Frogs 989-991 (web address 1), quoted also at beta 468 and mu 121. The other two terms used here (each of them apparently stemming from a proper name) stand at least as much in need of glossing as does this adjective: see Dover (below) 315-16. For the formation of the adjective, see also the entry in LSJ s.v. (web address 2 below).
References
Aristophanes, Frogs, edited with introduction and commentary by K.J. Dover (Oxford 1993)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- α31Ἀβελτεροκόκκυξsilly cuckooThe vacuous and silly man.
- α32Ἀβέλτεροςthoughtless[Meaning] mindless, stupid. For the intelligent man [is] be/lteros ["thoughtful, superior"]. "No, by Zeus, not the greedy and thoughtless fellow, but the mindless and conceitedly slow-witted." Menander in Perinthia…
- α71Ἀβέλτερος νοῦςfoolish mind"[A foolish mind,] empty, naive, young."
- β468ΒουταλίωνBoutalion[Boutalion] and Koroibos and Melitides were calumniated for stupidity. Aristophanes [writes]: "before this the stupidest men used to sit gaping -- dolts, half-wits."
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