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Headword:
Spatilê
Adler number: sigma,912
Translated headword: excreta
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] mens' dung. Also [meaning] the small bits of skin thrown out by the leather-workers. For spati/lh [means] skin, from the [verb] spa=sqai ["to be torn"]. Kleon [is a] coprophage, because he was a tanner of hides; since they used to process the hides with dung.
Greek Original:Spatilê: hê tôn andrôn kopros. kai ta mikra dermata, ta ekballomena hupo tôn skuteôn. spatilê gar to derma, para to spasthai. skatophagos de ho Kleôn, epei bursodepsês ên: epei meta koprou tas bursas eirgazonto.
Note:
Aristophanes, Peace 48 (where the headword, a feminine noun, occurs in the accusative case), with fuller
scholia. Other sources specify that
spati/lh refers to loose stool or diarrhea (e.g.
Hesychius sigma1436). With a play on the two significations listed here,
Aristophanes refers to Kleon (
beta 593,
kappa 1731) eating the
spati/lh; hence the reference to coprophagy.
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; medicine; politics; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 February 2014@03:53:57.
Vetted by:William Hutton (augmented notes, added keywords, raised status) on 17 February 2014@09:49:42.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 18 February 2014@05:06:32.
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