Wednesday, July 01, 2020
Intellectuals
Aristophanes, Clouds 100-104 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson):
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PHIDIPPIDESK.J. Dover ad loc.:
And who are they?
STREPSIADES
I don't know the term exactly. Thoughtful cogitators, fine and genteel people.
PHIDIPPIDES
Yuk! That scum. I know them: you mean the charlatans, the pasty-faced, the unshod, like that miserable Socrates, and Chaerephon.
ΦΕΙΔΙΠΠΙΔΗΣ
εἰσὶν δὲ τίνες;
ΣΤΡΕΨΙΑΔΗΣ
οὐκ οἶδ᾿ ἀκριβῶς τοὔνομα. 100
μεριμνοφροντισταὶ καλοί τε κἀγαθοί.
ΦΕΙΔΙΠΠΙΔΗΣ
αἰβοῖ, πονηροί γ᾿, οἶδα. τοὺς ἀλαζόνας,
τοὺς ὠχριῶντας, τοὺς ἀνυποδήτους λέγεις,
ὧν ὁ κακοδαίμων Σωκράτης καὶ Χαιρεφῶν.
