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Headword:
Rhopala
Adler number: rho,228
Translated headword: clubs, cudgels
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] wooden things; [sc. so called] from the [verb] r(api/zein ["to slap/beat"], or to smite ?in the scale?.[1]
"What do you have in mind? [Why have] a buskin and a club [both come together]?" That is, come together at the same place. In reference to things that are not [sc. mutually] harmonious. Heracles says this to Dionysus; for the buskin fits women.[2]
Greek Original:Rhopala: ta xula: para to rhapizein, ê têi rhopêi aloian. tis nous; kothornos kai rhopalon. toutestin eis tauto xunêlthon. epi tôn asumphônôn pragmatôn. touto de phêsin Hêraklês pros ton Dionuson: ho gar kothornos gunaixin harmozei.
Notes:
The headword is neuter plural, quoted from
Homer: see n.1 below.
cf. generally
rho 229, and under
rho 233.
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 11.559, where the headword occurs (as
r(o/pal'). For this verb see
rho 45. For
r(oph/ (suggested here as etymology) see
rho 230 and
rho 231.
[2] A loose approximation of
Aristophanes,
Frogs 47, with comment from the
scholia there.
Keywords: clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; gender and sexuality; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 September 2010@07:33:52.
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