Vol. 40 No. 1 (2014): XL - 2014
Articoli

Sull’accezione sessuale di <em>argòs</em> in Aristofane e Platone Comico

Published 2014-09-02

Keywords

  • Aristophanes,
  • Plato Comicus,
  • comedy

Abstract

On the basis of the analysis of Aristophanes, Clouds 53-55, Ecclesiazusae 877-883, and Plato Comicus, fr. 43 K.-A., the author proves that the word ἀργός may assume, in comic language, the meaning of “sexually inactive”, later attested also in Alciphron 2.7, and in Strato AP 12.240.

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