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Headword: Ocheuô
Adler number: omicron,1037
Translated headword: I copulate
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"Eat, drink, copulate: since everything else is worth nothing." In other [words], since the other things are not worth this, a snap of the fingers. For the statue standing on his tomb was made having the hands over the head, as if snapping with the fingers, girded in Lydian style, marble in material. Sardanapalos.
Greek Original:
Ocheuô. esthie, pin', ocheue: hôs ta ge alla oudenos estin axia. en allois, hôs ta ge alla ou toutou estin axia, tou tôn daktulôn apokrotêmatos. to gar ephestôs tôi mnêmati agalma huper tês kephalês echon tas cheiras pepoiêto, hôst' an apolêkoun tois daktulois, anezôsmenon Ludisti, marmareon tên hulên. Sardanapalos.
Notes:
FGrHist 124 (Kallisthenes) F34, quoted more fully at sigma 122; see also alpha 2032.
cf. Photius, Lexicon sigma 80 Theodoridis (s.v. *sardanapa/lous), and a scholion on Aristophanes, Birds 1021, where *sardana/pallos (sic) is mentioned (web address 1).
For the verb o)xeu/w, see also omicron 1039.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: art history; biography; clothing; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 31 July 2010@23:10:06.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks) on 1 August 2010@04:01:27.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 1 August 2010@10:58:01.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 4 August 2013@05:18:35.
Catharine Roth (supplemented note) on 20 September 2013@22:59:35.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 31 July 2014@00:26:16.

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