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Headword:
Epebateuon
Adler number: epsilon,2021
Translated headword: I was mounting
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] I was having sex with. Herakles says to Dionysos, "Where in the world had you gone off to?"[1] And he says, "I was mounting Kleisthenes." "Mounting" is used for having sex with [someone]; from a metaphor of animals, which have sex by mounting.[2] Kleisthenes gets reviled in comedy for his shamelessness. He was smooth-cheeked and that made him look like a eunuch. They also mock Kleisthenes for feeling unnatural lusts. The word "I was mounting" [is] nasty.
Greek Original:Epebateuon: sunousiazon. Hêraklês phêsi pros ton Dionuson: poi gês apedêmeis; ho de phêsin: epebateuon Kleisthenei. to epibateuein epi sunousias: apo metaphoras tôn zôiôn, ha epibainonta sunousiazei. ho de Kleisthenês ep' aischrotêti kômôideitai. ên de leios to geneion kai eunouchôi eikazein auton. ton de Kleisthenên kai epi tou paschêtian kômôidousi. to de epebateuon kakemphaton.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Frogs 48 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there. For Kleisthenes cf.
kappa 1756,
kappa 1757,
kappa 1758.
'Mounting' is one appropriate way of translating the verb
e)pibateu/ein in this context, but note also its connotations (ignored in the present scholion) of serving as a marine on board a warship; cf. J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975)162 #262.
[1] cf.
pi 3070.
[2] For a related entry see
lambda 226.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery; military affairs; mythology; zoology
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 7 November 2002@20:49:03.
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