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Headword: Klimakizein
Adler number: kappa,1804
Translated headword: to distort, to pervert
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Dinarchus mentions [this word] in the reproach on behalf of Aeschines, when he says: "this man is distorting the laws".[1] It is akin to "is diverting" and "is twisting"; perhaps from the attested noun klimax, which is a torturer's tool that twists the bodies of those being tortured.
And Aristophanes [writes]: "torture [my slave] ... in every way: tying on a klimax, hanging, whipping with a scourge, cudgelling, racking, and then pouring vinegar into his nostrils, piling on bricks, and all the rest -- except, don't beat him with a leek or a young onion".[2]
Greek Original:
Klimakizein: memnêtai Deinarchos en têi huper Aischinou eisêgoriai, legôn: houtos klimakizei tous nomous. estin de hoion paragei kai diastrephei: isôs apo tês klimakos eirêmenou tou onomatos, hêtis ousa organon basanistikon diastrephei ta sômata tôn basanizomenôn. kai Aristophanês: basanize panta tropon: en klimaki dêsas, kremasas, hustrichidi mastigôn, dairôn, streblôn, eti d' es tas rhinas oxos encheôn, plinthous epititheis, panta t' alla, plên prasôi mê tupte touton mêde gêteiôi neôi.
Notes:
The first part of this entry, also in Photius, Lexicon kappa783 Theodoridis (and cf. Lexica Segueriana 272.15-17), runs in parallel with Harpokration s.v. klima/zh| (K63 Keaney) -- see already kappa 1802.
[1] Dinarchus fr. IX.3 Conomis. The transmitted noun here, 'reproach' (eisegoria), is rare and, more important, inappropriate in this context. It should be, as Harpok. shows, synegoria ('support-speech').
[2] Aristophanes, Frogs 616-622 (web address 1); cf. beta 137, gamma 262, upsilon 692.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 May 2008@04:52:18.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 13 May 2008@09:43:39.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 13 May 2008@09:54:08.
David Whitehead on 3 March 2013@06:15:17.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 5 March 2013@20:19:08.
David Whitehead on 1 May 2016@09:22:03.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 12 September 2019@23:52:08.

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