Wednesday, May 07, 2025

 

A Meeting

Philogelos 233 Dawe (pp. 72-73; tr. Wiliam Berg):
Someone with bad breath runs into a man who's deaf. 'Hello,' he calls, and the deaf man yells, 'Yaack!' 'Why, what did I say?,' asks the first man. 'You didn't speak; you farted!,' comes the answer.

Ὀζόστομος κωφῷ ὑπαντήσας ἔλεγε· Χαῖρε, κἀκεῖνος εἶπε· Φῦ. τοῦ δὲ εἰρηκότος· Τί γὰρ εἶπον; ἔφη· ῎Εβδεσας.
Berg's translation is rather free. I don't have access to the translation and commentary by Barry Baldwin.

Andreas Thierfelder ad loc.:

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