Τίτθαι
wet-nurses
Translated by Catharine Roth21 Feb 2014Vetting: high1 revision
Translation
Aristophanes [writes]: "and then just like the wet-nurses you feed badly." This [i.e. ti/tqai ] is what they call those who feed the children with their breasts and their milk: because the children are not able to eat their food whole, these women having chewed [it], in this way after preparing the eatables, taking [them] out of their own mouth put [them] into [the mouths] of the children. Then it happens that the ignorant [women] give little to the children but eat up the larger part themselves. Thus Kleon granting little to the people used to make more profit; "for chewing you put a small [amount] in [for the people], but yourself drew out three times that."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τίτθαι· Ἀριστοφάνης· κᾆθ' ὥσπερ αἱ τίτθαι γε σιτίζεις κακῶς. οὕτω καλοῦνται αἱ [παρὰ] τοῖς τιτθίοις καὶ τῷ γάλακτι τρέφουσαι τὰ παιδία· αἵτινες διὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι τὰ παιδία ὁλοκλήρους τὰς τροφὰς ἐσθίειν, διαμασώμεναι, οὕτω μετὰ τὸ κατεργάσασθαι τὰ ἐδέσματα, ἐξαίρουσαι τοῦ ἰδίου στόματος, ἐντιθέασι τοῖς τῶν παιδίων. εἶτα συμβαίνει τὰς ἀγνώμονας ὀλίγα μὲν διδόναι τοῖς παιδίοις, αὐτὰς δὲ κατεσθίειν τὰ πλείονα. οὕτω ὁ Κλέων ὀλίγα μὲν τῷ δήμῳ χαριζόμενος τὰ πλείω ἐκέρδαινε· μασώμενος γὰρ τῷ μὲν ὀλίγον ἐντιθεῖς, αὐτὸς δὲ ἐκείνου τριπλάσιον κατέσπακας.
Betacode
*ti/tqai: *)aristofa/nhs: ka)=|q' w(/sper ai( ti/tqai ge siti/zeis kakw=s. ou(/tw kalou=ntai ai( [para\] toi=s titqi/ois kai\ tw=| ga/lakti tre/fousai ta\ paidi/a: ai(/tines dia\ to\ mh\ du/nasqai ta\ paidi/a o(loklh/rous ta\s trofa\s e)sqi/ein, diamasw/menai, ou(/tw meta\ to\ katerga/sasqai ta\ e)de/smata, e)cai/rousai tou= i)di/ou sto/matos, e)ntiqe/asi toi=s tw=n paidi/wn. ei)=ta sumbai/nei ta\s a)gnw/monas o)li/ga me\n dido/nai toi=s paidi/ois, au)ta\s de\ katesqi/ein ta\ plei/ona. ou(/tw o( *kle/wn o)li/ga me\n tw=| dh/mw| xarizo/menos ta\ plei/w e)ke/rdaine: masw/menos ga\r tw=| me\n o)li/gon e)ntiqei=s, au)to\s de\ e)kei/nou tripla/sion kate/spakas.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Knights 716 and 717-718, with scholion. The headword, extracted from the passage, is nominative plural; for the singular see tau 688.
For Kleon see generally kappa 1731. The present charge against him is made by his opponent in the play, the sausage-seller.
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Revision history1 revision · last 21 Feb 2014
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth