Πώμαλα

not at all

Translated by Catharine Roth6 May 2013Vetting: high3 revisions

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The expression is also¹ attested in Demosthenes: "[...] not in order that you would go out [sc. to fight]. Not at all".² Also in Aristophanes, in Kokalos.³ One must read pw/mala as a single entity.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πώμαλα· κεῖται καὶ παρὰ Δημοσθένει ἡ λέξις· οὐχ ἵνα ἐξέλθητε. πώμαλα. καὶ παρ' Ἀριστοφάνει ἐν Κωκάλῳ. δεῖ δὲ ἀναγινώσκειν ὑφ' ἓν πώμαλα.

Betacode

*pw/mala: kei=tai kai\ para\ *dhmosqe/nei h( le/cis: ou)x i(/na e)ce/lqhte. pw/mala. kai\ par' *)aristofa/nei e)n *kwka/lw|. dei= de\ a)naginw/skein u(f' e(\n pw/mala.

Notes (3)

For the material of this entry, parallels are found in Harpokration (pi132 Keaney) and a scholion on the Demosthenes passage quoted.
1See already pi 2176. ↩
2Demosthenes 19.51 (web address 1). ↩
3Aristophanes fr. 346 Kock (361 K.-A.), not quoted here. ↩

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

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π2176Πώμαλαwhere?; not at allMeaning whence? Like ou)damw=s ["not at all"]. The [component] pw= ["where"] is Doric, used instead of po/qen ["whence"]; but the [component] mala is either redundant or said customarily in the [word] pw/mala, like ou)…

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Revision history3 revisions · last 24 Jun 2016

24 Jun 2016my typo — David Whitehead
11 Oct 2013Revised — David Whitehead
6 May 2013modified tr; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
6 May 2013Translated — Catharine Roth

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Greek original · Adler’s text

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