Νοιδίων
little ideas
Translated by Robert Leigh28 Oct 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] thoughts. The diminutive "little idea" was formed from the plural noi [of nous, "mind"]. But some [sc. define it] thus: of abuses and insults [arising] from drinking wine and being drunk. Aristophanes [writes]: "I shall sprinkle everything with little reasonings, little sayings, little ideas."1
As a diminutive [it is] better to say noïdion, then in contracted form noidion; so too out of prochoos ["jug"] comes prochoidion ["little jug"] and out of bous/boos ["ox"] boidion ["calf"].2
As a diminutive [it is] better to say noïdion, then in contracted form noidion; so too out of prochoos ["jug"] comes prochoidion ["little jug"] and out of bous/boos ["ox"] boidion ["calf"].2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νοιδίων· διανοημάτων. παρήγαγε δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ πληθυντικοῦ τοῦ οἱ νοῖ τὸ νοίδιον ὑποκοριστικόν. τινὲς δὲ οὕτως, ὀνειδισμῶν καὶ λοιδοριῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ οἴνου καὶ τῆς μέθης. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἐγὼ δὲ πάντα καταπάσω βουλευματίων, γνωμιδίων, νοιδίων. κάλλιον καθ' ὑποκορισμὸν νοϊδίων εἰπεῖν, εἶτα συνῃρημένως νοιδίων· οὕτω καὶ ἐκ τοῦ πρόχοος γίνεται προχοίδιον καὶ ἐκ τοῦ βοῦς, βοὸς βοίδιον.
Betacode
*noidi/wn: dianohma/twn. parh/gage de\ a)po\ tou= plhquntikou= tou= oi( noi= to\ noi/dion u(pokoristiko/n. tine\s de\ ou(/tws, o)neidismw=n kai\ loidoriw=n a)po\ tou= oi)/nou kai\ th=s me/qhs. *)aristofa/nhs: e)gw\ de\ pa/nta katapa/sw bouleumati/wn, gnwmidi/wn, noidi/wn. ka/llion kaq' u(pokorismo\n noi+di/wn ei)pei=n, ei)=ta sunh|rhme/nws noidi/wn: ou(/tw kai\ e)k tou= pro/xoos gi/netai proxoi/dion kai\ e)k tou= bou=s, boo\s boi/dion.
Notes (2)
- The headword is a genitive plural, extracted from the quotation given.
- 1An approximation of Aristophanes, Knights 99-100 (omitting the words "When I am drunk I shall sprinkle ..." etc.), with comment from the scholia there. See web address 1. ↩
- 2These extra remarks are a marginal addition in ms M. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Sep 2013
- modified link, typo — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Robert Leigh