Φιλοτιμία
ostentation
Translated by Catharine Roth7 Jan 2004Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] beautiful language. Aristophanes [writes]: "I stood up, o women, to speak with no ostentation, as the two goddesses are my witnesses."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φιλοτιμία· καλλιλεξία. Ἀριστοφάνης· φιλοτιμίᾳ μὲν οὐδεμιᾷ, μὰ τὼ θεώ, λέξουσ' ἀνέστην, ὦ γυναῖκες.
Betacode
*filotimi/a: kallileci/a. *)aristofa/nhs: filotimi/a| me\n ou)demia=|, ma\ tw\ qew/, le/cous' a)ne/sthn, w)= gunai=kes.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 383-4 (web address 1) with scholion on this verse. The two goddesses (accusative dual) are Demeter and Persephone; cf. nu 92.
For other meanings of the headword see phi 432.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- φ430Φιλοτιμεῖταιloves honor, pursues honor[Meaning he/she/it] bestows freely, is generous, is earnest, loves.
- φ432Φιλοτιμίαςof ambition, of love of honor[Meaning] of [sc. receiving] a gift, or of greed, or of vanity. Also [sc. attested is] filotimou/menos ["[he] loving honor"], that is [he] being vain.
- φ433Φιλοτιμότεραι Κλεοφῶντοςmore honor-bound than Kleophon["(accomplishments) more honor-bound than Kleophon], upon whose [bilingual] lips [formidably] roars a Thracian swallow." Meaning unsophisticated. He is mocking him as a Thracian, a Thracian woman's son; [it is he] who…
- φ434ΦιλοτιμοῦμαιI love honor, I am ambitious, I present [with something][Used] with a dative.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 9 Jun 2016
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- upgraded link — Catharine Roth
- x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth