Thursday, October 19, 2023
An Old Man
Aristophanes, Wealth 265-267 (tr. Stephen Halliwell):
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I'll tell you, then, you nasty things: he's brought an old man home,J. van Leeuwen ad loc. compares Plautus, The Merchant 639-640 (tr. Paul Nixon):
A dirty, stooping, wrinkled wretch, who's bald and toothless too.
What's more, I'll swear by heaven above he's circumcised as well!
ἔχων ἀφῖκται δεῦρο πρεσβύτην τινʼ, ὦ πόνηροι,
ῥυπῶντα κυφὸν ἄθλιον ῥυσὸν μαδῶντα νωδόν·
οἶμαι δὲ νὴ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ψωλὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι.
A gray-haired, knock-kneed, pot-bellied, big-mouthed, stubby fellow,
with blackish eyes, lantern jaws, and feet a bit splayed.
canum, varum, ventriosum, bucculentum, breviculum,
subnigris oculis, oblongis malis, pansam aliquantulum.
