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Headword:
Skômmation
Adler number: sigma,687
Translated headword: little jest
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also [sc. attested is]
skw/mmata ['jests']: a little jest,[1] shit.
Aristophanes [writes]: "with no care for me, but only to the point of learning whether I might emit some little jest while under pressure. Considering these things I played the ape a little."[2]
Greek Original:Skômmation. kai skômmata: skômmation, skaton. Aristophanês: ouden ar' emou melon, hoion de monon eidenai skômmation ei pote ti thlibomenos ekbalô. tauti katidôn hupo ti mikron epithêkasa.
Notes:
[1] This much of the entry is lacking, Adler reports, in mss AV (i.e. they have only the headword and the gloss 'shit'). Ms F omits the whole entry.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1288-1290, also quoted at
mu 533 and
epsilon 2333. The entry seems to suggest that there is punning in the passage between the words for "little jest" and "shit".
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; imagery; medicine; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 1 March 2014@07:35:34.
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