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Headword: *do/te moi leka/nhn
Adler number: delta,1408
Translated headword: give me a dish
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Said] in reference to those who are annoyed and pretending to vomit because of anger.
Greek Original:
*do/te moi leka/nhn: e)pi\ tw=n o)rgizome/nwn kai\ prospoioume/nwn u(po\ xolh=s e)mei=n.
Note:
Aristophanes, Clouds 907 (web address 1), with comment based on the scholia there; more fully at lambda 232. (The present entry's gloss suggests that the phrase became proverbial, but it is not in the paroemiographic collections.)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; ethics; food; medicine; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 March 2005@14:39:23.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 6 March 2005@05:26:11.
David Whitehead (tweak) on 3 June 2009@06:38:36.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 25 July 2011@21:48:16.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 16 July 2012@10:02:18.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords) on 14 November 2015@07:03:55.

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