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Headword:
*korkoruga/s
Adler number: kappa,2095
Translated headword: rumblings
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] shouts, uproars, disturbances.[1] "Stop battles and rumblings, so that we may call [sc. you] Lysimache."[2]
Aristophanes [sc. also writes]: "those aiming at the magistracies, they were stirring up some rumbling". Meaning they were setting uproars in motion.[3]
*korkoruga/s: boa/s, taraxa/s, qoru/bous. lu=son de\ ma/xas kai\ korkoruga/s, i(/na *lusima/xhn se kalw=men. *)aristofa/nhs: oi( tai=s a)rxai=s e)pe/xontes, tina\ korkorugh\n e)ku/kwn. a)nti\ tou= taraxa\s e)ki/noun.
Notes:
[1] The headword is accusative plural of this noun, extracted from the first quotation given. For a variant see
kappa 2096.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Peace 991-2 (web address 1), with scholion. On the face of it the wordplay is simple enough -- Peace will acquire the name Lysimache, Battle-stopper -- but it has the extra dimension of the fact that this was the name of
Athens' venerable and longstanding priestess of Athena Polias. See on this J. Henderson,
Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Oxford 1987) xxxviii-ix.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 490-1 (web address 2), with scholion.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; politics; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 January 2009@05:42:41.
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