Παράνοια

insanity, lunacy

Translated by Ronald Allen17 Nov 2007Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 42 words
"Should I bring him [sc. to court] and have him convicted of insanity?"1 In effect, I will be a litigant against my father, and having demonstrated him mad by bringing [sc. him] into the jurycourt, thus put a stop to the madness.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παράνοια· πότερον παρανοίας αὐτὸν εἰσαγαγὼν ἕλω; οἷον πρὸς τὸν πατέρα δικάσομαι, καὶ δείξας αὐτὸν μαινόμενον, οὕτω τὴν μανίαν παύσω, εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον ἀγαγών.

Betacode
*para/noia: po/teron paranoi/as au)to\n ei)sagagw\n e(/lw; oi(=on pro\s to\n pate/ra dika/somai, kai\ dei/cas au)to\n maino/menon, ou(/tw th\n mani/an pau/sw, ei)s to\ dikasth/rion a)gagw/n.

Notes (2)

  1. 1Aristophanes, Clouds 845 (where the present headword appears, as is usual in the name of lawsuits, in the genitive: web address 1), with scholion.
    For the graphe paranoias see the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia 56.6 and elsewhere.     ↩
  2. 2Upon legal certification of Strepsiades' dementia, control over the family's wealth would customarily and conveniently pass to Phidippides (Dover, p. 203). ↩

References


K.J. Dover, Aristophanes, Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968

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π400Παραμυθῆσαιto encourageπ401Παρανάλωμαextra expenseπ402Παράνοιαinsanity, lunacyπ403Παράπανaltogetherπ404Παραπαίωνstriking a false note
Revision history6 revisions · last 25 May 2021
  1. cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  2. coding etc. — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. corrected and augmented notes; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — Ronald Allen

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