β488Βωμολοχεύσαιτο
(if one) were to play the wit at the altar
Meaning [if] one were to say something vulgar or cheap. Aristophanes in Clouds on corruption of the harmonics: "[them] tuning the harmony that our fathers passed on. But if one of them were to play the wit at the altar…
Βωμολοχεύσαιτο· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀγοραῖόν τι εἴποι ἢ εὐτελές. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις περὶ διαφθορᾶς ἁρμονικῶν· ἐντειναμένους τὴν ἁρμονίαν, ἣν οἱ πατέρες παρέδωκαν. εἰ δέ τις αὐτῶν…