Ἀγριοποιόν
wild-maker, wild-making
Translated by Anne Mahoney28 Aug 1998Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
And a wild-making fellow.1
[sc. Meaning him who is] introducing savage heroes.2 Aristophanes [says] about Aeschylus: "I know him and understand him well; I've watched him for a long time; a wild-making fellow, stubborn of speech, with an unbridled, ungoverned mouth with no door on it; can't be out-talked, blathers in big boastful bundles."3
[sc. Meaning him who is] introducing savage heroes.2 Aristophanes [says] about Aeschylus: "I know him and understand him well; I've watched him for a long time; a wild-making fellow, stubborn of speech, with an unbridled, ungoverned mouth with no door on it; can't be out-talked, blathers in big boastful bundles."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀγριοποιόν. καὶ ἄνθρωπος ἀγριοποιός. ἀγρίους εἰσάγοντα τοὺς ἥρωας. Ἀριστοφάνης περὶ Αἰσχύλου· ἐγᾦδα τοῦτον κἀξεπίσταμαι καὶ διέσκεμμαι πάλαι, ἄνθρωπον ἀγριοποιὸν, αὐθαδόστομον, ἔχοντ' ἀχάλινον ἀκρατὲς ἀθύρωτον στόμα, ἀπεριλάλητον, κομποφακελορρήμονα.
Betacode
*)agriopoio/n. kai\ a)/nqrwpos a)griopoio/s. a)gri/ous ei)sa/gonta tou\s h(/rwas. *)aristofa/nhs peri\ *ai)sxu/lou: e)gw)=|da tou=ton ka)cepi/stamai kai\ die/skemmai pa/lai, a)/nqrwpon a)griopoio\n, au)qado/stomon, e)/xont' a)xa/linon a)krate\s a)qu/rwton sto/ma, a)perila/lhton, kompofakelorrh/mona.
Notes (3)
- The headword is the accusative case, extracted from the quotation eventually given.↩
- 1A marginal addition in ms. A. ↩
- 2That is, onto the stage. The gloss is that of the scholiast to the passage from Aristophanes about to be quoted. ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Frogs 836-839; again, in part, at alpha 3044 and epsilon 150, and cf. also alpha 772. Spoken by Euripides, who is not an impartial witness.
Linked from5 entries
- α361Ἀγριότηςwildness[Meaning] impulse. "For an amazing motive force, it seems, pushing a man in this direction [is?] wildness." In reference to a love of money. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)griw/tatos ["most/very wild"],…
- α772Ἀθύρωτον στόμαdoorless mouthThus doorless, not gateless. Aristophanes in Frogs [sc. uses the phrase]. Also [in] Phrynichus. But some write "gateless" when they mean "opened and not having a gate", that is to say not curbed or controlled.
- α3044Ἀπεριλάλητονnot to be out-talked[Meaning someone] either not knowing [how] to speak or someone one could not out-talk.
- α3720Ἀπύλωτον στόμαgateless mouthAristophanes in Frogs [writes] a)qu/rwton ["doorless"] but not a)pu/lwton ["gateless"]. Also Phrynichus. But some write a)pu/lwton meaning open and not having a gate: that is, neither curbed nor controlled.
- ε150ἘγᾦδαI myself know[Meaning] I myself recognize. Concerning Aeschylus: "I myself know this man and have examined him long since, a man who makes wild [characters]."
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Revision history3 revisions · last 27 Mar 2012
- another x-ref and keyword; tweaked tr — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keyworsds; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Anne Mahoney