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Headword:
Peiran
Adler number: pi,1452
Translated headword: to test
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to proffer words about sex. And to be tested [means] to hear such words.
Thucydides [writes]: "after being tested by Hipparkhos son of Peisistratos [...] Harmodios accuses [him] to Aristogeiton."[1] The word also means to be put the test in other ways.
For "to test" properly means to make advances to a woman concerning sex.[2]
Greek Original:Peiran: tous logous peri sunousias propherein. kai peirathênai, to akousai logous toioutous. Thoukudidês: peiratheis de ho Harmodios hupo Hipparchou tou Peisistratou katagoreuei tôi Aristogeitoni. sêmainei hê lexis kai to allôs diapeirasthai. Peiran gar kuriôs to prosballein gunaiki peri tês aphroditês.
Notes:
The first paragraph here is also in
Photius (pi537 Theodoridis).
[1]
Thucydides 6.54.3 (here abbreviated by the exclusion of the phrase 'and after not being persuaded').
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 517; cf.
pi 1462.
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; historiography; history
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 23 May 2002@12:33:16.
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