Τὠφθαλμὼ παραβάλλῃ

you are casting your eyes down

Translated by David Whitehead6 Feb 2014Vetting: high2 revisions

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Aristophanes in Clouds [uses the phrase]. That is, you are lowering your eyes and looking down. Homer [uses the phrase]: "looking askance."¹ For that is how Socrates used to walk. And Plato [says] about him: "looking down bull-like, just as usual".²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τὠφθαλμὼ παραβάλλῃ· Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις. τουτέστι τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ὑφορᾷς καὶ ὑποβλέπῃ. Ὅμηρος· ὑπόδρα ἰδών. οὕτω γὰρ ἐβάδιζεν ὁ Σωκράτης. καὶ Πλάτων περὶ αὐτοῦ· ταυρηδὸν ὑποβλέψας, ὥσπερ εἰώθει.

Betacode

*tw)fqalmw\ paraba/llh|: *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais. toute/sti toi=s o)fqalmoi=s u(fora=|s kai\ u(poble/ph|. *(/omhros: u(po/dra i)dw/n. ou(/tw ga\r e)ba/dizen o( *swkra/ths. kai\ *pla/twn peri\ au)tou=: taurhdo\n u(poble/yas, w(/sper ei)w/qei.

Notes (2)

A version of Aristophanes, Clouds 362 (the verb should be active paraba/lleis), with fuller scholia. See also beta 532, tau 157, and (for Socrates) sigma 829.
1Homer, Iliad 1.148 (of Achilles). ↩
2Plato, Phaedo 117B (with these phrases reversed). ↩

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τ881Τῷ τοι ἄραtherefore then you see τ882Τό τοι πολὺthe great τ883Τὠφθαλμὼ παραβάλλῃyou are casting your eyes down τ884Τραβαῖαιrobes, trabeae τ885Τραβείτηςunder-table

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7 Feb 2014x-refs — David Whitehead
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