Ῥομβοστωμυλήθρα
braggadocio
Translated by David Whitehead18 Dec 2002Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Eubulides says: "the Eristic, asking his horned questions and confounding the orators with bogus-pretentious arguments, has gone, with the braggadocio of Demosthenes."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥομβοστωμυλήθρα· Εὐβουλίδης φησίν· οὑριστικὸς κερατίνας ἐρωτῶν καὶ ψευδαλαζόσιν λόγοις τοὺς ῥήτορας κυλίων ἀπῆλθ', ἔχων Δημοσθένους τὴν ῥομβοστωμυλήθραν.
Betacode
*(rombostwmulh/qra: *eu)bouli/dhs fhsi/n: ou(ristiko\s kerati/nas e)rwtw=n kai\ yeudalazo/sin lo/gois tou\s r(h/toras kuli/wn a)ph=lq', e)/xwn *dhmosqe/nous th\n r(ombostwmulh/qran.
Notes
- A garbled version of Diogenes Laertius 2.108, where the quotation comes from an unnamed comic poet (Comica adespota fr. 294 Kock, now 149 K.-A.) and includes the name given here: 'Eubulides the Eristic...'. (For the mid-C4-BCE philosopher Eubulides of Miletus -- purportedly a teacher of Demosthenes -- and, inter alia, his Horned Argument ["have you lost your horns?"], see generally OCD(4) s.v.) Furthermore the headword here, repeated in the course of the entry itself, is a garbled version of the original; Plutarch, Demosthenes 9 shows that it should be
r(wpoperperh/thra .
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