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Headword: *pladdiei=n
Adler number: pi,1680
Translated headword: to blether
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to be insane, to make war, to fornicate.
Greek Original:
*pladdiei=n: parafronei=n, polemei=n, plhsia/zein.
Notes:
From the scholia vetera to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 171 (web address 1), where this Laconian dialect word -- more properly pladdih=n -- occurs; cf. rho 323.
As again here, the scholion offers the three synonyms without differentiation; only the first of them hits the mark.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 March 2010@07:21:04.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 9 April 2010@22:49:36.
Catharine Roth (added link, raised status) on 11 April 2010@01:28:30.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 11 April 2010@04:32:45.
David Whitehead on 4 October 2013@07:09:52.
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