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Headword: Εἰκάσμεθα
Adler number: epsiloniota,64
Translated headword: we have been made like
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
In Aristophanes, meaning we have been mocked. "For we have been made like this, as Aeschylus says, ..."
Greek Original:
Εἰκάσμεθα: παρὰ Ἀριστοφάνει, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐσκώμμεθα. ταυτὶ γὰρ εἰκάσμεθα κατὰ τὸν Αἰσχύλον.
Note:
Aristophanes, Birds 807 with scholion. The next verse is a quotation from Aeschylus' lost play Myrmidons [fr.139], about an eagle struck with an arrow trimmed with eagle feathers: "these are not from others but our own feathers." Cf. omicron 992, tau 183.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 August 2005@22:10:04.
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David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 25 August 2005@04:38:48.
Catharine Roth (added cross-references) on 7 September 2007@15:32:54.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link, added keyword) on 31 August 2010@11:32:06.
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