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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.
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