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Headword:
*(imonia=n
Adler number: iota,358
Translated headword: cable's length
Vetting Status: high
Translation: To defecate [a cable's length]; meaning to shit long [turds]; from the rope which which water is raised, which they call
i(monia/.[1]
And
Aristophanes [writes]: "where did you gather rope-twister's songs?" The water-drawers used to sing a water-drawing song.[2]
*(imonia=n: a)popatei=n: a)nti\ tou= makra\ xe/zein: a)po\ tou= sxoini/ou, di' ou(= ta\ u(/data a)ru/ontai, o(\ kalou=sin i(monia/n. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: po/qen sune/lecas i(moniostro/fou me/lh; h)=|don de\ a)=|sma oi( a)ntlhtai\ i(mai=on.
Notes:
[1] From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 351, where the phrase
i(monia/n tin' a)popatei=s occurs: see web address 1. The lexicographer has misinterpreted (and mis-accented) its noun as a non-existent present infinitive.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1297 (web address 2), with scholion; cf.
iota 357 and
iota 343.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; medicine; meter and music
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 April 2006@22:14:43.
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