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Headword:
Ekeroutias
Adler number: epsilon,417
Translated headword: you would toss your horns
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] you were holding your head up in the manner of horn-bearing animals, because they become impressive-looking when they hold the head aloft. It [also] signifies prancing. Like a stag, he is saying, you were taking pride in your horns.
Aristophanes [writes]: "you would flap your wings and toss your horns."
Greek Original:Ekeroutias: tên kephalên aneteines dikên tôn keratophorountôn zôiôn, hoti eueidê ginetai meteôrizonta tên koruphên. dêloi de to gaurian. hôs elaphos, phêsin, êgallou tois kerasin. Aristophanês: anôrtalizes, kakeroutias.
Note:
Aristophanes,
Knights 1344 (web address 1), with comments from the
scholia thereto; the sausage-seller on Demos' susceptibility to flattery; cf.
alpha 2568.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; politics; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 29 October 2006@09:11:46.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (x-ref and another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 29 October 2006@09:34:42.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 3 August 2012@06:58:48.
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