No term quite expresses the hilarity and grotesque nature of the rabble quite like οι πολλοι. The Latin idea of them merely as a physical representation of an uproar (turba) offers us something more threatining and grim. πολλοι converts them all to Falstaffian blobs.
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The equivalent to "turba" is okhlos, used by Aristophanes as "nautikos ohklos" to describe Athen's maritime empire as a "nautical mob".
8:01 AM - 20 May 2018
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