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Headword: *skordina=sqai
Adler number: sigma,667
Translated headword: to stretch oneself
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to stretch out one's limbs unnaturally while yawning when fatigued. Aristophanes in Acharnians [writes]: "I sigh, I yawn, I stretch myself, I fart."[1]
Some [say] it refers to those who awake from sleep, when they yawn and stretch their limbs; which also happens with those who have their limbs distorted and twisted in some other way.[2]
Greek Original:
*skordina=sqai: to\ para\ fu/sin a)potei/nein ta\ me/lh meta\ tou= xasma=sqai diaklw/menon. *)aristofa/nhs *)axarneu=si: ste/nw, ke/xhna, skordinw=mai, pe/rdomai. tine\s de\ peri\ tou\s e)geirome/nous e)c u(/pnou, o(/tan xasmw/deis o)/ntes e)ktei/nousi ta\ me/lh: o(/per sumbai/nei kai\ peri\ tou\s a)/llws pws basanizome/nous kai\ diastrefome/nous ta\ me/lh.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Acharnians 30 (web address 1); see further below. Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius sigma374 Theodoridis.
[2] Presumably referring to people stretching their legs after (e.g.) sitting for a considerable time in a cramped position; cff. scholia on Aristophanes, Frogs 922 and Wasps 642.
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A supernumerary entry in Adler, sigma 667b (not recognised by the SOL software) has the headword skordinw=mai ("I stretch myself") and draws on the scholia to the word in Aristophanes, Acharnians 30 (see above).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition
Translated by: Alan Sommerstein on 15 January 2004@07:03:43.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (x-ref; cosmetics) on 15 January 2004@07:51:05.
Catharine Roth (added link) on 16 January 2004@01:16:06.
Catharine Roth (tweaked notes, fixed link) on 19 September 2011@22:26:15.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 20 September 2011@04:28:31.
David Whitehead (tweaking; raised status) on 30 December 2013@03:42:45.

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