Σώφρων
Sophron
Translated by David Whitehead18 Dec 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σώφρων, κωμικός. τούτου ἐστὶ δράματα καὶ κωμῳδίαι, Πενθερά· ὡς Ἀθήναιός φησιν ἐν Δειπνοσοφισταῖς.
Betacode
*sw/frwn, kwmiko/s. tou/tou e)sti\ dra/mata kai\ kwmw|di/ai, *penqera/: w(s *)aqh/naio/s fhsin e)n *deipnosofistai=s.
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- κ337Κάπηλοςretailer, hucksterSome suppose [it] to be one [word] in place of another, as in the [quotation] from Sophocles: "much mud is stirred up from jars." Sophocles [is] prone to [use the word] phlo/s ["mud"]. However, wine is not mud. But…
- κ1487Κηδεστήςin-law[Meaning] the male relative by marriage, or a penqero/s. But not only he who gives [in marriage]; he who takes, also. "You ought not to hide it, being my [son-]in-law".
- ρ121ῬηγίνουςRhegians[Meaning] cowards; for Xenarchus, the son of Sophron the mime-writer, used to satirize the Rhegians as cowards - persuaded [to do this] by Dionysius the tyrant. And [there is] a proverb: 'more cowardly than a Rhegian',…
- σ882Σωφρονεῖνto be prudentSophocles [writes]: "do not judge, do not investigate; to be prudent [is] a fine thing." Now [sc. the topic is] not being meddlesome; for in these matters especially is women's propriety preserved, if they do not meddle…
- σ883Σωφρονεῖςyou are being prudentMeaning you have only just changed course, or you are speaking well. Aristophanes in Plutus [sc. uses the word].
- σ893ΣώφρωνSophronOf Syracuse, son of Agathocles and Damnasyllis. He lived in the era of Xerxes and Euripides. And he wrote Mimes to do with men [and] Mimes to do with women; they are in prose, in the Doric dialect. And they say that…
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