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Headword:
Rhuppapai
Adler number: rho,300
Translated headword: rhuppapai
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Sailor's exclamation, an encouragement to rowing.
Aristophanes [writes]: "they knew nothing but to call out for barley-bread and
rhuppapai!"[1]
[Note] that the dirty man [
r(uparo/s] because of his habits is somewhat similar to sticky sediment. Look too under "sticky sediment."[2]
Greek Original:Rhuppapai: epiphthegma nautikon, parakeleustikon kôpêlasias. Aristophanês: ouk êpistant' ei mê mazan kalesai kai rhuppapai. hoti ho rhuparos dia tên askêsin sunengus pôs esti tôi gloiôi. kai zêtei en tôi gloios.
Notes:
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in ms G.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1073, and scholion. The word are spoken by "
Aeschylus":
kai/toi to/te g' h(ni/k' e)gw\ 'zwn, ou)k h)pi/stant' a)ll' h)\ ma=zan kale/sai kai\ ‘r(uppapai=’ ei)pei=n (Dillon: "But when I was alive, they knew nothing but to call for grits and sing Yo-ho!"). See text at web address 1, and cf. generally
epsilon 934,
epsilon 2807.
[2]
gamma 306, from which the latter half of this entry is repeated.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; food; military affairs
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 8 February 2004@19:47:19.
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