Κρέας
carcass, flesh, meat
Translated by Ronald Allen13 Dec 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes in Clouds also inappropriately applied [it] to birds: "[dithyramb composers used to gulp down] bird carcasses."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κρέας· καταχρηστικῶς καὶ ἐπὶ ὀρνίθων ἐχρήσατο Ἀριστοφάνης ἐν Νεφέλαις· κρέα τ' ὀρνίθεια.
Betacode
*kre/as: kataxrhstikw=s kai\ e)pi\ o)rni/qwn e)xrh/sato *)aristofa/nhs e)n *nefe/lais: kre/a t' o)rni/qeia.
Notes (1)
- The headword, already at kappa 2362, is a neuter noun in the nominative (and vocative, accusative, and genitive) singular; see generally LSJ s.v. It appears in the quotation given in the accusative (and nominative and vocative) plural.
See also kappa 2360 and kappa 2361. - 1Aristophanes, Clouds 339 (web address 1): Strepsiades vents to Socrates his contempt for the dithyrambists' prolix writing style; cf. delta 1029; OCD(4) s.v. dithyramb; and Dover, p. 146. ↩
References
K.J. Dover, ed., Aristophanes Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 27 Jan 2020
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen