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Headword:
*prwkto/s
Adler number: pi,2950
Translated headword: arse, ass
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the anus/rectum. [sc. Named] from the fact that it pushes forward the [contents] of the stomach.[1]
And a proverb: "look into a dog's arse!"[2] This they used to say to those suffering eye trouble.
Aristophanes in
Acharnians [writes]: "blow 'the dog's arse' on the bone-pipes."[3] And elsewhere
Aristophanes [writes]: "let someone summon
Antisthenes without fail, for to judge by moans this man knows what the arse requires when it needs to shit. O mistress Eileithyia, may you never stand by and watch me being split apart, nor stoppered-up."[4] Meaning being overcome by the dung.
Antisthenes [was] an effeminate physician. On the subject of Kleon
Aristophanes says, "he had an arse of a chimney."[5]
The anus/rectum.
[sc. So called] from the fact that it sends forth.[6]
*prwkto/s: o( ko/los. para\ to\ prowqei=n ta\ th=s gastro/s. kai\ paroimi/a: ei)s prwkto\n kuno\s ble/pe. tou=to e)pe/legon toi=s o)fqalmiw=sin. *)aristofa/nhs *)axarneu=si: toi=s o)sti/nois fusa=te to\n prwkto\n kuno/s. 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. w)= po/tni' *ei)lei/quia, mh/ me perii/+dh|s diarrage/nta, mhde\ bebalanwme/non. a)nti\ tou= katexo/menon u(po\ th=s ko/prou. o( de\ *)antisqe/nhs i)atro\s qhludri/as. peri\ *kle/wno/s fhsin *)aristofa/nhs: prwkto\n d' ei)=xe kami/nou. o( ko/los. para\ to\ proi+e/nai.
Notes:
On the headword,
prwkto/s, and its 'low tone' see J.Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 201 and passim. With the present entry cf.
beta 214,
omicron 713,
pi 3110,
chi 182; and see also
pi 2951,
pi 2952.
[1] An etymology based on phonological resemblance: to push forward (
prowqei=n) + stomach (
gasth/r) yields anus (
prwkto/s).
[2]
Appendix Proverbiorum 2.25 and other paroemiographers.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 863 (web address 1), with scholion.
[4]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae [
Assemblywomen] 367 (web address 2), with scholion.
[5] A variant version of
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1035 (web address 3), repeated
Peace 758. The reading
prwkto\n de\ kamh/lou ('an arse of a camel') occurs in all of the mss of
Wasps and some of those of
Peace. (In pronunciation
kami/nou and
kamh/lou would only differ by one letter in the Suda's time, so possibly a dictation error.)
[6] An alternative etymology, added in ms. A: send forth (
proi+e/nai) yields arse (
prwkto/s).
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