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Headword:
Ὦ
μηδαμῶς
Adler number: omega,86
Translated headword: o by no means
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Such a figure of speech[1] is called aposiopesis.[2] There is also something similar in
Demosthenes: "but o - what could anyone call [you] who wanted to get it right?"[3] For after [
Aristophanes] had said "by no means", he said "o by no means".
Ὦ μηδαμῶς: τὸ τοιοῦτο σχῆμα ἀποσιώπησις λέγεται. ἔστι καὶ παρὰ Δημοσθένει τὸ ὅμοιον: ἀλλ' ὦ, τί ἄν σε τις εἰπὼν ὀρθῶς προσείποι; εἰρηκότος γὰρ αὐτοῦ μηδαμῶς: εἶπεν ὦ μηδαμῶς.
Notes:
cf.
alpha 3521 (a rare instance of a cross-reference missed by Adler).
[1] The headword phrase quotes
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 334 (
μηδαμῶς ὦ μηδαμῶς ). The
scholia there supply the entry here.
[2] "A rhetorical figure, when for emphasis, modesty, etc., the sentence is abruptly broken off" (LSJ s.v.).
[3]
Demosthenes 18. 22.
Translated by: Sheila Kurian on 6 June 2000@10:36:27.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword, translation, notes; added keyword; deleted translators notes) on 4 May 2001@10:20:04.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 4 June 2001@05:54:48.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 8 August 2011@07:44:10.
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