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Headword:
Pterugizein
Adler number: pi,3017
Translated headword: to flap one's wings
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning to accomplish nothing. From fledglings making an attempt to fly.
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "but you are babbling and flapping your wings."[1] Meaning you are causing a commotion. For a wing is noisy and causes a commotion. Or [meaning] you are talking frivolously, or you are laboring in vain. From a metaphor of fledglings that are not able to fly because of the shortness of their life. Or [meaning] you are conversing in vain. From fledglings,[2] who make trial of their wings but are not able to take flight. Thus [the word means] you also wish to speak in opposition and you try to, but you accomplish nothing.
Pterugizein: anti tou mêden anuein. apo tôn epiballomenôn petesthai neossôn. Aristophanês Ploutôi. alla phluareis kai pterugizeis. anti tou thorubêi. to gar pteron êchôdes kai thorubêtikon. ê koupha laleis. ê mataioponeis. apo metaphoras tôn neossôn tôn mê dunamenôn petesthai dia to brachu tês hêlikias. ê mataia dialegêi. apo tôn neottôn, hoi peirazousi men tas pterugas, hiptasthai de ou dunantai. houtô kai su theleis men anteipein kai peirazeis, anueis de ouden.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 575, with comments from the
scholia there. Likewise in
Photius,
Lexicon pi1472 Theodoridis; and cf.
Hesychius pi4210.
[2] This part of the entry uses a Atticizing form of the word for fledgling (
neottw=n), whereas the other references to fledglings in the entry use the standard Koine form
neossw=n.
Translated by: William Hutton on 18 August 2013@01:55:07.
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