Λαγῴοις
on hares
Translated by Oliver Phillips ✝23 Jul 2004Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] on the flesh of the hare. Aristophanes [writes]: "[with the revenue] from which twenty thousand of the common people [could live] on hares and all sorts of garlands."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λαγῴοις· τοῖς τοῦ λαγωοῦ κρέασιν. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἐξ ὧν δύο μυριάδες τῶν δημοτικῶν ἐν λαγῴοις καὶ στεφάνοισι παντοδαποῖσι.
Betacode
*lagw/|ois: toi=s tou= lagwou= kre/asin. *)aristofa/nhs: e)c w(=n du/o muria/des tw=n dhmotikw=n e)n lagw/|ois kai\ stefa/noisi pantodapoi=si.
Notes
- An approximation of Aristophanes, Wasps 709-10 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; cf. pi 3221. Bdelycleon (for whom see under lambda 14) charges the demagogues with diverting the revenue from the tribute brought by the member states of the Delian League, that is, the Athenian Empire (for which see generally under mu 739). (He has asserted that the League had a thousand tributary cities, whereas at its largest there were about 250. See web address 2 below.) He would have each of the cities assessed for the support of twenty Athenian citizens.
The scholia say that eating hare’s flesh means living luxuriously; and this headword itself can by extension cover all sorts of dainties or luxury foodstuffs (see LSJ s.v.).
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 plato-dialogues.org
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Revision history6 revisions · last 16 May 2016
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- upgraded link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- small additions to note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Oliver Phillips ✝