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Sunday, September 21, 2025

An Unskilled Debater

Aristophanes, Wealth 574-575 (tr. anon.):
Not being able to refute my arguments,
you chatter at random and exert yourself to no purpose.

καὶ σύ γ᾽ ἐλέγξαι μ᾽ οὔπω δύνασαι περὶ τούτου,
ἀλλὰ φλυαρεῖς καὶ πτερυγίζεις.        575
M. Chantry, ed., Scholia Vetera in Aristophanis Plutum (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1994), p. 102: