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Headword:
Thrupsomai
Adler number: theta,521
Translated headword: I will play hard to get
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] I will be very effeminate, I will be reserved; or[1] meaning I will be crushed.
Aristophanes [writes]: "today I will play hard to get with my lovers."
Greek Original:Thrupsomai: sphodra truphêsô, semnunoumai, ê anti tou suntribêsomai. Aristophanês: sêmeron hupo tôn erastôn egô thrupsomai.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Knights 1162-3 (from which the headword verb is extracted), with comment from the
scholia there. For
qru/ptesqai as one of comedy's verbs for refusing sexual activity see J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 161 #257.
[1] Incorrectly: see note above.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; poetry
Translated by: Nicholas Wilshere on 21 November 2002@17:12:38.
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