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Headword:
Ἀβελτερώτατοι
Adler number: alpha,33
Translated headword: most thoughtless, very thoughtless
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "before this most/very thoughtless men used to sit gaping -- Dolts, Half-wits".[1]
Greek Original:Ἀβελτερώτατοι: Ἀριστοφάνης: τέως δ' ἀβελτερώτατοι κεχηνότες Μαμμάκυθοι Μελιτίδαι κάθηνται.
Notes:
Masculine nominative plural of this superlative, evidently from the quotation given. See also
alpha 31,
alpha 32.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 989-991 (web address 1), quoted also at
beta 468 and
mu 121. The other two terms used here (each of them apparently stemming from a proper name) stand at least as much in need of glossing as does this adjective: see Dover (below) 315-16. For the formation of the adjective, see also the entry in LSJ s.v. (web address 2 below).
Aristophanes, Frogs, edited with introduction and commentary by K.J. Dover (Oxford 1993).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 25 August 1998@19:03:23.
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