Νεόττιον

nestling, chick

Translated by Catharine Roth18 Aug 2009Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 35 words
[Meaning an] offspring.1 Aristophanes [writes]: "let him become a partridge, his father's nestling". The son of Pisias wants to become like his father. Pisias was a traitor.2 And elsewhere: "three shameless creatures, Pisias, Osphyon, Diitrephes."3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νεόττιον· γέννημα. Ἀριστοφάνης· πέρδιξ γενέσθω τοῦ πατρὸς νεόττιον. τοῦ Πισίου ὁ υἱὸς ὅμοιος βούλεται γενέσθαι τῷ πατρί. ἦν δὲ ὁ Πισίας προδότης. καὶ αὖθις· τρία κνώδαλα ἀναιδῆ, Πισίας Ὀσφύων, Διϊτρέφης.

Betacode
*neo/ttion: ge/nnhma. *)aristofa/nhs: pe/rdic gene/sqw tou= patro\s neo/ttion. tou= *pisi/ou o( ui(o\s o(/moios bou/letai gene/sqai tw=| patri/. h)=n de\ o( *pisi/as prodo/ths. kai\ au)=qis: tri/a knw/dala a)naidh=, *pisi/as *)osfu/wn, *dii+tre/fhs.

Notes (3)

  1. Aristophanes, Birds 767 (web address 1), with fuller scholia.
  2. 1The headword is a diminutive of neotto/s/neosso/s (nu 208, nu 214, nu 215). ↩
  3. 2For what little can be said (or surmised) about P. and his son, see Dunbar ad loc. ↩
  4. 3Cratinus fr. 233 Kock, now 251 K.-A.; cf. pi 1641. ↩

References


N. Dunbar (ed.) Aristophanes: Birds (Oxford 1995)

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Revision history4 revisions · last 3 Jan 2015
  1. updated a ref — David Whitehead
  2. tweaked link — Catharine Roth
  3. more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. another note; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

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