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Headword:
Anerrichônto
Adler number: alpha,2313
Translated headword: they were clambering up, they were scrambling up
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they were going up grasping with hands and feet.
Strictly speaking they used to say
a)narrixa=sqai for climbing to a height gripping with hands and feet.
Hellanicus [writes]: "he scrambled up to the treetops just like a monkey."[1] That is, he climbed up high, up trees and walls. It is derived from
arrichoi ["wicker baskets"]. It is a type of basket, which they usually draw up by means of cords. Or from
arachnai ["spiders' webs"], and is in effect
a)raxna=sqai ["to weave a spider's web"]: for spiders spin along their aerial routes.
Aristophanes [writes]: "[that] he might scramble up these to heaven"[2] - speaking about the dung-beetle.
Greek Original:Anerrichônto: chersi kai posi peridrassomenoi anêrchonto. kuriôs to tois posi kai chersi biazomenon eis hupsos anabainein anarrichasthai elegon. Hellanikos: anarrichatai de hôsper pithêkos ep' akra ta dendra. toutesti pros hupsos anebaine, pros dendra kai toichous. eirêtai de apo tôn arrichôn. eidos de esti kophinôn, hous eiôthasi dia schoiniôn animan. ê apo tôn arachnôn, kai estin hoion arachnasthai: hai gar arachnai nêthousi kata tas enaerious hodous. Aristophanês: pros taut' anerrichat' an pros ton ouranon. peri tou kantharou legôn.
Notes:
The headword is reckoned to be an unattributable and context-less fragment of Attic Comedy (
Comica adespota fr. 936 Kock, but not in K.-A.).
cf.
alpha 2049,
alpha 3942.
[1]
Hellanicus FGrH 1 F197.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Peace 70 (web address 1). This line actually refers to Trygaios' attempt to use ladders to ascend to heaven; the dung-beetle on which he flies (via the
mechane) is introduced in 72ff.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; stagecraft; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 November 2000@21:46:31.
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