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Ἀντ' ἀγαθῶν ἀγαθίδες
skeins of good things
A proverb in reference to to those having a fine experience in return for their previous benefactions.
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Χιανεύει καὶ λαικάζει
he is smelting ... and going whoring
Aristophanes [writes]:
Agathon
is beginning "to put in the stocks the beginnings of a drama. He is bending new felloes of verses; some he is turning on the lathe, others he is patching together; …
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Χορικός
chorikos, choricus, chorus-leader
… he who leads out the chorus. Such a one was
Agathon,
who used to create dramatic songs and act them out himself; therefore they are also called "choral" [songs].
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Ἀντεύφρασμα
joy's antithesis
… a single (neuter) noun in the Greek, is quoted from
Agathon
(fr. 30 Nauck), the final word here, transmitted as a)gaqo/n or a)gaw=n, might actually be his name: thus the gloss would read 'what …
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