Ἀταλαίπωρον
unpainstaking
Translated by Jennifer Benedict23 Mar 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] without effort. Or something said off-hand and not with show. Or what is easy and obvious.
Aelian [writes]: "[...] if there is something sound in the earlier speech. But that one, with an untested indictment and unpainstaking hearsay of the truth, is spread about to the masses and otherwise wanders abroad. But let it be true for me."1
Also [sc. attested is the related adverb]a)talaipw/rws ["unpainstakingly"], [meaning] easily, negligently. Aristophanes in Danaids [writes]: "thus for them creation was not unpainstakingly managed."2
Aelian [writes]: "[...] if there is something sound in the earlier speech. But that one, with an untested indictment and unpainstaking hearsay of the truth, is spread about to the masses and otherwise wanders abroad. But let it be true for me."1
Also [sc. attested is the related adverb]