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Headword:
*)afodeu=sai
Adler number: alpha,4635
Translated headword: to excrete
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Plato in
Adonises [sc. uses this word.][1] Also [sc. attested is the related noun]
a)/fodos ["privy"], an out-house. From which also [comes the verb]
a)fodeu/ein. Also [sc. attested is]
a)/fodos [in the sense of] a retreat, just as the arrival [is an]
e)/fodos.[2]
Greek Original:*)afodeu=sai: *pla/twn *)adw/nisi. kai\ *)/afodos, o( a)po/patos. e)c ou(= kai\ a)fodeu/ein. kai\ *)/afodon, a)naxw/rhsin, w(/sper kai\ e)/fodon th\n e)pe/leusin.
Notes:
[1]
Plato Comicus fr. 5 Kock (and K.-A.). The word is the aorist active infinitive of the verb
a)fodeu/w. For this and its cognates as euphemistic see J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 191-2 #412.
[2] In fact, here, accusative singular of
a)/fodos in that sense; evidently quoted from somewhere.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 November 2001@18:07:29.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; augmented note and keywords) on 12 November 2001@04:28:51.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; betacode and other cosmetics) on 7 May 2012@08:01:22.
David Whitehead on 27 December 2014@08:44:47.
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