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Headword: Chordeue
Adler number: chi,395
Translated headword: mince; make sausages
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] cut,[1] that is, combine and mix together with each other; for they call the intestines of quadrupeds xordai/ ["sausages"]. So the word is said [to be derived] from the trade of the sausage-seller; "for just as you stuff and fill the instestines full of every [sort of] mixture, thus mince and stir and stir up the affairs of state and mix up all the business, sweetening [the people] up a bit with your culinary speeches, using some relishes and dressing [them] with wicked acts."[2]
And Polybius says: "and there was a certain dandyism in most of them, exceeding their financial means."[3] That is, [their] supply.
Greek Original:
Chordeue: temne, toutesti sumpleke allêlois kai sunkuka: ta gar entera tôn tetrapodôn chordas kalousin. apo tês technês oun tou allantopôlou to onoma eirêtai: hôsper gar gemizeis kai plêrois ta entera pantos tou phuramatos, houtô chordeue kai taratte kai ta politika kai suntaratte kai sumphura ta pragmata, hupoglukainôn rhêmatiois mageirikois, hêdusmasi chrômenos kai artuôn kakiais. kai Polubios phêsi: kai tis ên peri tous pleistous kallôpismos, huperechôn tên ek tou biou chorêgian. toutesti parochên.
Notes:
The headword, quoted from Aristophanes (see n.2 below), is the present active imperative, second person singular, of the verb xordeu/w.
[1] Compare a gloss to Herodotus 6.75.3 (web address 1 below) where kataxordeu/wn occurs; cf. Hesychius.
[2] An expansion and paraphrase of Aristophanes, Knights 216 (web address 2 below), with scholia.
[3] Polybius 11.8.5 (web address 3); cf. epsilon 3195 and upsilon 274. It is not clear how this quotation is meant to relate to the rest of the entry; in his edition, Küster transposed these last lines to the end of chi 399.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 April 2008@02:02:10.
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