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Headword: Τρίμμα
Adler number: tau,989
Translated headword: expert, habitue, dab hand
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Someone with practical experience. Also in Aristophanes in Clouds: "you will become a polished speaker".[1] That is, practised; you will be competent and skilled in speaking. Also Demosthenes in the [speech] On the Crown, when attacking Aeschines as a reckless and shameless orator, calls him a habitue of the agora.[2]
Greek Original:
Τρίμμα: ὁ τετριμμένος ἐν τοῖς πράγμασι. καὶ παρ' Ἀριστοφάνει ἐν Νεφέλαις: λέγειν γενήσῃ τρίμμα. τουτέστι τετριμμένος, ἱκανὸς καὶ δεινὸς ἔσῃ λέγειν. καὶ Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ Περὶ τοῦ στεφάνου ὡς ἰταμοῦ καὶ ἀναισχύντου ῥήτορος καθαπτόμενος Αἰσχίνου, περίτριμμα ἀγορᾶς αὐτὸν καλεῖ.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Clouds 260 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there.
[2] Demosthenes 18.127 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 November 2001@06:52:39.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added links, set status) on 12 November 2004@11:48:29.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; cosmetics) on 14 November 2004@04:52:57.
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