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Headword:
Maschalisthênai
Adler number: mu,274
Translated headword: to put under the armpits, to mutilate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They are accustomed to wipe their swords on the heads of those killed, as a way of averting the impurity of murder. Or, that on killing someone they would cut off the murder victim's extremities, and hang them around his armpit, so that (he says) he would become too weak to punish the murderer in return. So Apollonius [wrote]: "you were cutting off the first sacrificial extracts of the dead". [This is said] about Jason.[1] Or, that those waging a civil war would mutilate the people killed, cutting off [the extremities] from every part of the body, and would hang them around themselves, stringing the extremities together. In this way they took away the power of those [they killed], so they would not suffer anything horrible from those [they killed] later on. And they would wear the extremities around their armpits: they would call this "putting under the armpits".[2]
Sophocles [writes]: "so think whether the corpse in the tomb would accept these burial honours kindly—when the corpse is dead by her hand without honour, mutilated with hostility, and its head wiped off spots in the bath". [This is said] about Agamemnon.[3]
Greek Original:Maschalisthênai: eiôthasi tôn anairoumenôn eis tas kephalas apomassein ta xiphê, hôsper apotropiazomenoi to musos to en tôi phonôi. ê hoti epi tais katharsesi tou phoneuthentos ta akra etemnon kai peri tên maschalên autou ekremazon auta, hina, phêsin, asthenês genoito pros to antitisasthai ton phonea. kai Apollônios: exargmata temnes thanontos. peri tou Iasonos. ê hoti hoi drôntes emphulion polemon êkrôtêriazon tous anairethentas, ek pantos merous tou sômatos apotemnomenoi, kai periêpton heautois, ta akra suneirontes, dia toutôn hôsper tên dunamin ekeinôn aphairoumenoi, dia to mê pathein eis husteron ti deinon par' ekeinôn. ephoroun de eis tas maschalas ta akra: ho maschalisthênai elegon. Sophoklês: skepsai gar, ei soi prosphilôs autêi dokei gera tad' houn taphoisi dexasthai nekus, huph' hês thanôn atimos, hôste dusmenês emaschalisthê, kapi loutroisi kara kêlidas exemaxe. peri tou Agamemnonos.
Notes:
See also
alpha 3616,
epsilon 928,
mu 275.
[1] Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica 4.477, which reads
ta/mne, "he cut off".
[2] The entire entry is excerpted from the
scholia to
Sophocles,
Electra 445, i.e. part of the passage now to be quoted'). The final sentence contains the headword as cited, in the aorist passive infinitive; the form does not occur in literature, but is glossed in
Hesychius, and may come from a passage like this. (
Sophocles himself uses the indicative in the following quotation.)
[3]
Sophocles,
Electra 442-446. The final verse misquotes
ka/ra for
ka/ra|: "and wiped off the spots [of blood] on [his] head".
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; medicine; military affairs; mythology; poetry; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 23 April 2009@21:09:42.
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