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Headword: Sizousa
Adler number: sigma,387
Translated headword: hissing, sizzling
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning [one that is] boiling; as in reference to one being cooked in a saucepan. In effect, giving off a particular sound. Homer [writes]: "so his eye hissed round the olive-wood stake."[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "one being roasted [and] sizzling by the sea."
Greek Original:
Sizousa: anti tou zeousa: hôs epi tês tagênizomenês. hoion poion êchon apotelousa. Homêros: hôs tou siz' ophthalmos elaïnôi amphi pelekei. Aristophanês: hêd' optômenê sizousa paralos.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Acharnians 1158 (referring to a cuttlefish), with scholion.
cf. sigma 386, tau 424, psi 39.
[1] Homer, Odyssey 9.394 (Odysseus and his men blind their captor, Polyphemus the Cyclops).
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; imagery; medicine; mythology; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 December 2013@06:23:35.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (expanded note, added a keyword, set status) on 23 December 2013@12:24:02.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 24 December 2013@03:39:12.
David Whitehead on 24 December 2013@05:59:01.
David Whitehead (more x-refs) on 5 February 2014@07:23:31.

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