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Headword: *xezhtiw=n
Adler number: chi,182
Translated headword: shit-wishing
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning someone] wanting to shit.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "when some Patrokleides of you happens to be shit-wishing, he would not have let it out into his cloak, but would fly off, and farting and catching his breath he would fly back again."[2] Meaning he would retire to void his bowels. It seems Patrokleides was a politically minded and learned man, but otherwise dirtied his bed linens. Therefore "shitting" (xesa=s) is also said.[3] And elsewhere Aristophanes [writes]: "let someone summon Antisthenes by any means; for that man knows what an arse-hole wants when it wants to take a shit."[4] This man Antisthenes was an effeminate doctor.
"A cure of a much-shitting disease."[5]
Greek Original:
*xezhtiw=n: boulo/menos xe/sai. *)aristofa/nhs: ei)/te *patroklei/dhs tis u(mw=n tugxa/nei xezhtiw=n, ou)k a)\n e)ci/disen ei)s qoima/tion, a)ll' a)ne/ptato ka)popardw\n ka)napneu/sas, au)=qis kate/ptato. a)nti\ tou= a)pepa/thse. dokei= o( *patroklei/dhs politiko\s ei)=nai kai\ lo/gios, a)/llws de\ katasxhmonw=n tw=n strwma/twn: dio\ kai\ *xesa=s e)le/geto. kai\ au)=qis *)aristofa/nhs: *)antisqe/nh tis kalesa/tw pa/sh| te/xnh|: ou(=tos ga\r a)nh\r e(/neka/ ge stenagma/twn oi)=de ti/ prwkto\s bou/letai xezhtiw=n. ou(=tos o( *)antisqe/nhs i)atro\s h)=n qhludri/as. a)phlla/gh me\n poluxe/sou nosh/matos.
Notes:
[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the first quotation given, is the masculine nominative singular, present active indicative, of the verb xezhtia/w ("I want to shit"), a desiderative of xe/zw. See Smyth ยง868 at web address 1.
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 790-792 (web address 2). Part of this entry is taken from a scholion to line 70. See also epsilon 1759 and chi 219.
[3] The masculine nominative singular, aorist active participle, of xe/zw ("I shit"); cf. chi 183. Patrokleides is best known as the author of the amnesty decree of 405 BCE (Andocides 1.76-79).
[4] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 366-368 (web address 3), with scholion. See also pi 2950.
[5] Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AS, and placed later in G.) See rather alpha 3149, with a)phlla/ghmen ("we were released...") for this entry's faulty a)phlla/gh me/n.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 March 2008@19:46:31.
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