Στρογγύλοις
with well-rounded
Translated by Ronald Allen29 Jan 2013Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
"With well-rounded words": [meaning] with persuasive [ones], or cunning [ones].1 Aristophanes [writes]: "he quickly beats [sc. the old man] by engaging with well-rounded words."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Στρογγύλοις· στρογγύλοις ῥήμασι· πιθανοῖς, ἢ πανούργοις. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἐς τάχος παίει, ξυνάπτων στρογγύλοις τοῖς ῥήμασι.
Betacode
*stroggu/lois: stroggu/lois r(h/masi: piqanoi=s, h)\ panou/rgois. *)aristofa/nhs: e)s ta/xos pai/ei, cuna/ptwn stroggu/lois toi=s r(h/masi.
Notes (2)
- The headword is an adjective is the masculine and neuter dative plural; see LSJ s.v.
stroggu/los , round, spherical, but metaphorically well-rounded, terse, compact. The entry is generated from an instance of the headword in the quotation twice given; see notes below. - 1The initial gloss anticipates a phrase from the quotation later given in full. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that mss GFM here do not repeat the headword.] The other glossing adjectives are the same form as the lemma, but from, respectively, the adjectives
piqano/s (persuasive, plausible; cf. pi 1572 and pi 1574) andpa/nourgos (ready for anything, wicked, crafty, cunning; cf. pi 212); see LSJ s.vv. and the scholia vetera to the quotation. ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Acharnians 686 (web address 1), already at pi 874. The Chorus-Leader protests what might well be an old man's courtroom predicament. ↩
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- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
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- Translated — Ronald Allen