Μεμιλτωμένον
miltos-soaked
Translated by David Whitehead7 Nov 2001Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes [writes]: "they are fleeing the miltos-soaked rope." Since the Athenians were idle as regards the meetings, two attendants used to stretch out a miltos-soaked rope through the agora and chase the mob into the assembly, as Plato the comic poet says. And those who were dyed had to pay a fine.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μεμιλτωμένον· Ἀριστοφάνης· τὸ σχοινίον φεύγουσι τὸ μεμιλτωμένον. ἐπεὶ ὀκνηρῶς εἶχον οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι πρὸς τὰς συνόδους, εἰώθασιν ὑπηρέται βʹ μεμιλτωμένον σχοινίον ἐκτείνοντες διὰ τῆς ἀγορᾶς διώκειν τὸν ὄχλον εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, ὥς φησι Πλάτων ὁ κωμικός. ὅσοι δὲ ἐχρίοντο, ἐξέτινον ζημίαν.
Betacode
*memiltwme/non: *)aristofa/nhs: to\ sxoini/on feu/gousi to\ memiltwme/non. e)pei\ o)knhrw=s ei)=xon oi( *)aqhnai=oi pro\s ta\s suno/dous, ei)w/qasin u(phre/tai b# memiltwme/non sxoini/on e)ktei/nontes dia\ th=s a)gora=s diw/kein to\n o)/xlon ei)s th\n e)kklhsi/an, w(/s fhsi *pla/twn o( kwmiko/s. o(/soi de\ e)xri/onto, e)ce/tinon zhmi/an.
Notes
- See under sigma 1810, a fuller version of this entry, for notes and link.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 15 May 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Cosmetics; augmented note; set status — Elizabeth Vandiver
- Translated — David Whitehead