Λευκή τις ἀνεπήδησ' ὅμοιος Νικίᾳ
someone white like Nikias sprang up
Translated by David Whitehead13 Jul 2001Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
This Nikias was effeminate.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λευκή τις ἀνεπήδησ' ὅμοιος Νικίᾳ· οὗτος γυναικώδης ἦν ὁ Νικίας.
Betacode
*leukh/ tis a)neph/dhs' o(/moios *niki/a|: ou(=tos gunaikw/dhs h)=n o( *niki/as.
Notes
- A misquotation of Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 428 (where the "someone" is not feminine, as here, but masculine, after the noun "youth"; see web address 1). Comment from the scholia on the line follows.
This early-fourth-century (BCE) Nikias is taken to be a grandson of the ill-fated general of that name (kappa 1731, lambda 557, mu 534, nu 389, pi 542, upsilon 217).