Ταρροί
crates, flat baskets, pallets, wickerwork frames
Translated by Ronald Allen28 Nov 2012Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
In Attic [sc. dialect these are] things plaited out of rushes.1 At any rate they call the farmers' baskets talaroi.2 But Aristophanes called [it] a fowl-perch, as follows: "then you look down upon the gods from a basket?"3 [The one] upon which Socrates was hanging suspended. Or a wickerwork frame, raised somewhat above the ground, upon which hens roost. In some way such as this one must suppose a fowl-perch to have been contrived.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ταρροί· Ἀττικῶς τὰ ἐκ σχοίνων πλέγματα. τοὺς γοῦν καλάμους τοὺς γεωργικοὺς ταλάρους καλοῦσι. τὴν δὲ κρεμάθραν Ἀριστοφάνης οὕτως ἐκάλεσεν. ἔπειτ' ἀπὸ ταρροῦ τοὺς θεοὺς ὑπερφρονεῖς; ἐφ' ἧς ὁ Σωκράτης ἐκρέματο. ἢ ταρρός, μετέωρόν τι ἰκρίον, ἐφ' οὗ αἱ ἀλεκτορίδες κοιμῶνται. τοιαύτην δή τινα ὑποληπτέον τὴν κρεμάθραν ἐσκευάσθαι.
Betacode
*tarroi/: *)attikw=s ta\ e)k sxoi/nwn ple/gmata. tou\s gou=n kala/mous tou\s gewrgikou\s tala/rous kalou=si. th\n de\ krema/qran *)aristofa/nhs ou(/tws e)ka/lesen. e)/peit' a)po\ tarrou= tou\s qeou\s u(perfronei=s; e)f' h(=s o( *swkra/ths e)kre/mato. h)\ tarro/s, mete/wro/n ti i)kri/on, e)f' ou(= ai( a)lektori/des koimw=ntai. toiau/thn dh/ tina u(polhpte/on th\n krema/qran e)skeua/sqai.
Notes (4)
- The Attic headword, already at tau 138, is the nominative plural of the masculine noun
tarro/s ; see generally LSJ s.v.tarso/s . The entry is generated from an instance of the headword's genitive singular form (tarrou= ) in the subsequent quotation: see further below. - 1This gloss, and indeed the rest of the entry, follows the scholia to the quotation given. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms F reads
sxoini/wn .] ↩ - 2cf. tau 38, tau 39. ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Clouds 226 (web address 1): Strepsiades sarcastically asks why Socrates is suspended in mid-air. ↩
- 4This is the generally accepted ancient interpretation; see Dover pp. 126-7. [Adler reports that ms G transmits
u(f' : under which Socrates was hanging suspended; that mss FV reade)kkremw=ntai (from which hens hang), whereas written above in ms V iskoimw=ntai , which the Suda transmits; and that ms F readsth\n toiau/thn .] ↩
References
K.J. Dover, ed., Aristophanes Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 7 Jan 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- restorative tweak — Catharine Roth
- x-refs; another keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ronald Allen