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Headword:
Οὐ
μὴ
ληρήσῃς
Adler number: omicron,919
Translated headword: do not talk nonsense
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Will you not stop talking nonsense?[1]
Greek Original:Οὐ μὴ ληρήσῃς: οὐ παύσῃ ληρῶν;
Notes:
In dramatic contexts, the sequence
οὐ μή of the headword phrase, followed by a second person subjunctive, expresses strong prohibition (Smyth, 1800c (note)). Here the verb is indeed the aorist subjunctive active, second person singular, of
ληρέω (
I talk nonsense, am foolish); see LSJ s.v. The entry is generated by an instance of this expression (although some manuscripts transmit the alternative spelling
ληρήσεις ; Dover, p. 26 and pp. 140-1) at
Aristophanes,
Clouds 367 (web address 1). See further, next note.
[1] Except for the participle, which is
φλυαρῶν (
prattling; see LSJ s.v.
φλυαρέω ), the scholion to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 367 (web address 1) is the same.
References:
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956
K.J. Dover, ed., Aristophanes Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 24 June 2010@01:40:50.
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