Διονυσίων σκώμματα
insults of the Dionysia
Translated by William Hutton2 Mar 2005Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
"[...] once assailing and insulting [them] with the insults from the Dionysia [...]."1
The Dionysia was a festival.2
"[Someone] who looking and gazing with shifty eyes hides one thing in his mind and speaks another"; "whose mouth overflowed with curses and bitterness and deceit"; "whom justice, justly judging, adjudicated against"; "who happened to be -- as the poet says -- a 'useless weight on the earth'".3 "But he has been tossed to the crows and is gone unseen, unheard of, shown to be twistier than a hinge in matters of business; away with him! off with him! that triple-stinker who won't even be lauded at his funeral feast, who messes everything up and throws everything into chaos and confusion, that Cyclopean monster"; "that hateful-looking and lightning-struck one who chooses to live for wealth, paying no heed to the will of the god nor trembling at inevitable retribution"; "he who is a constant altar-filcher and is boastfully stingy, doggier than dogs and more troublesome than demons."4
The Dionysia was a festival.2
"[Someone] who looking and gazing with shifty eyes hides one thing in his mind and speaks another"; "whose mouth overflowed with curses and bitterness and deceit"; "whom justice, justly judging, adjudicated against"; "who happened to be -- as the poet says -- a 'useless weight on the earth'".3 "But he has been tossed to the crows and is gone unseen, unheard of, shown to be twistier than a hinge in matters of business; away with him! off with him! that triple-stinker who won't even be lauded at his funeral feast, who messes everything up and throws everything into chaos and confusion, that Cyclopean monster"; "that hateful-looking and lightning-struck one who chooses to live for wealth, paying no heed to the will of the god nor trembling at inevitable retribution"; "he who is a constant altar-filcher and is boastfully stingy, doggier than dogs and more troublesome than demons."4