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Headword: Ereidein
Adler number: epsilon,2948
Translated headword: to set to work, to fall to
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Thus say Attic Greeks of everything that is done vigorously.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "set to work; don't ever stop eating."[2] The metaphor [comes] from those who row and set to work on the oars.[3]
Greek Original:
Ereidein: houtô phasin Attikoi pan hotioun suntonôs ginomenon. Aristophanês: ereide, mê pausaio mêdepot' esthiôn. hê metaphora apo tôn erettontôn kai epereidomenôn tais kôpais.
Notes:
[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Peace 25 (web address 1). For another meaning of the verb, see epsilon 2949.
[2] Aristophanes, Peace 31, with scholia.
[3] cf. epsilon 2930, phi 146.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 22 May 2007@12:10:36.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference and keyword, fixed link, set status) on 22 May 2007@22:18:05.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 23 May 2007@03:38:48.
David Whitehead on 25 October 2012@09:09:24.
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