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Headword: *sou=
Adler number: sigma,792
Translated headword: shoo!
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes in Wasps [writes]: 'where, where's the hunting-net? Shoo, shoo, again shoo!'. In reference to birds.[1]
And elsewhere Aristophanes [writes]: '"it suits a wise man, who is able in an instant to abbreviate many words excellently". But for my part, smitten by a common calamity, I come as a suppliant to you'.[2]
Greek Original:
*sou=: *)aristofa/nhs *sfhci/: pou=, pou= 'sti mou= to\ di/ktuon; sou=, sou=, pa/lin sou=. e)pi\ o)rne/wn. kai\ au)=qis *)aristofa/nhs: sofou= pro\s a)ndro/s, o(/s tis e)n braxei= pollou\s kalw\s oi(=o/s te suntemei=n lo/gous. e)gw\ de\ koinh=| cumfora=| peplhgme/nos i(ke/ths a)fi=gmai pro\s se/.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Wasps 208-9 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; cf. epsilon 2807. The headword, not commented on by this scholiast, is the passive imperative of the verb so/w or soe/w, alternative forms of seu/w (MacDowell ad loc.).
[2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 177-180 (web address 2), the first two of these lines quoting Euripides; cf. kappa 2556, omicroniota 154. For 'common' read 'novel', a change of one letter in the Greek. The connection between this and the rest of the entry is opaque.
Reference:
Aristophanes, Wasps, edited with introduction and commentary by Douglas M. MacDowell (Oxford 1971)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 April 2003@06:04:33.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added links, reduced note) on 25 December 2004@15:25:53.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 31 December 2004@07:15:17.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 18 August 2011@10:59:07.

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