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Headword: Σκαιότατον
Adler number: sigma,549
Translated headword: most stupid, very stupid
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Uneducated.[1] Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "[you] most/very stupid little old man."[2]
Greek Original:
Σκαιότατον: ἀπαίδευτον. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις: σκαιότατον γερόντιον.
Notes:
[1] Superlative of σκαιός (sigma 548, sigma 546), neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular. For the glossing here cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 629, where σκαιόν occurs.
[2] Aristophanes, Clouds 790 (web address 1), with scholion; quoted already at epsilon 2444.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 January 2011@17:41:51.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; tweaks and cosmetics) on 9 January 2011@05:28:32.
David Whitehead on 18 August 2011@06:23:53.
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