Προσβολή
assault, attack, visitation
Translated by David Whitehead15 Aug 2013Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] penalty, deity's anger, in Aristophanes. For instead of saying 'creature' he said 'penalty', cursing it. "And of what deity in the world it is a visitation, I know not." [He is speaking] about the dung-beetle.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προσβολή· ζημία, δαίμονος ὀργή, παρὰ Ἀριστοφάνει. ἀντὶ γὰρ τοῦ εἰπεῖν ζῷον ζημίαν εἶπε, καταρώμενος αὐτῷ. χὤτου ποτ' ἐστὶ δαιμόνων ἡ προσβολή, οὐκ οἶδα. περὶ τοῦ κανθάρου.
Betacode
*prosbolh/: zhmi/a, dai/monos o)rgh/, para\ *)aristofa/nei. a)nti\ ga\r tou= ei)pei=n zw=|on zhmi/an ei)=pe, katarw/menos au)tw=|. xw)/tou pot' e)sti\ daimo/nwn h( prosbolh/, ou)k oi)=da. peri\ tou= kanqa/rou.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Peace 39-40, with scholion (puzzling in part: Aristophanes himself doesn't, in fact, say 'penalty' in this context -- or 'creature' either). See web address 1.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 22 Nov 2021
- expanded note, added a link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead