Σκίρρον
cheese-rind
Translated by David Whitehead22 May 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
"Of all dogs [a man] the most solitary-eating; having sailed round the mortar in a circle, he has eaten up the cheese-rind out of all the cities".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σκίρρον· κυνῶν ἁπάντων μονοφαγίστατον, ὅστις περιπλεύσας τὴν θυείαν ἐν κύκλῳ ἐκ τῶν πόλεων τὸ σκίρρον ἐξεδήδοκε.
Betacode
*ski/rron: kunw=n a(pa/ntwn monofagi/staton, o(/stis peripleu/sas th\n quei/an e)n ku/klw| e)k tw=n po/lewn to\ ski/rron e)cedh/doke.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Wasps 923-925 (omitting here, from 923, the accusative
a)/ndra ). This is from the allegorical mock-prosecution scene where Kleon (kappa 1731) prosecutes General 'Labes' (= Laches), both of them in the guise of dogs. See web address 1.
Some modern editors see 'the mortar' (theta 534) as standing for Sicily, where Laches had recently been in command (Thucydides 3.86-115 passim). MacDowell is unconvinced.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 18 Aug 2011
- more keywords — David Whitehead
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- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead