Ὁτίη τί
because why?
Translated by Catharine Roth15 Jul 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Meaning why. The ti [is] superfluous. Aristophanes in Clouds [sc. uses the expression].1
See the [sc. comparison of]dio/ti with o(/ti in the [entry on] dio/ti .2
See the [sc. comparison of]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὁτίη τί· ἀντὶ τοῦ διατί. τὸ δὲ τί περιττόν. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις. ζήτει τὴν διότι πρὸς τὸ ὅτι ἐν τῷ διότι.
Betacode
*(oti/h ti/: a)nti\ tou= diati/. to\ de\ ti/ peritto/n. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais. zh/tei th\n dio/ti pro\s to\ o(/ti e)n tw=| dio/ti.
Notes (2)
- 1From a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 784, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1). ↩
- 2See delta 1214. (This addendum is lacking, Adler reports, in mss AFS.) A feminine noun in the accusative seems to be either missing or implicit after the definite article
th\n ; the editio princeps of Demetrius Chalcocondyles (1499) supplieddiafora\n "difference, distinction." ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 19 May 2015
- my typo — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth