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Headword:
*(upapotre/xein
Adler number: upsilon,131
Translated headword: to slip away
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Those not present at the Pnyx at daybreak [sc. were obliged] to slip away without having even a peg". Meaning to go away/out, without having even small change; for those coming late into the Pnyx could not take the assembly-fee.
Greek Original:*(upapotre/xein: toi=s mh\ parou=sin o)rqri/ois e)s th\n *pnu/ka u(papotre/xein e)/xousi mhde\ pa/ttalon. a)nti\ tou= o)pi/sw tre/xein, mhde\ to\ tuxo\n e)/xousin: oi( ga\r u(/steron e)rxo/menoi ei)s th\n *pnu/ka ou)k e)la/mbanon to\ e)kklhsiastiko/n.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 283-4 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
pi 775,
upsilon 154. For 'assembly-fee' cf. under
iota 537.
In comedy 'peg' is one of the numerous synonyms for an erect penis; 'without even having a peg' thus means literally empty-handed.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; constitution; definition; economics; gender and sexuality; imagery
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 August 2008@06:30:32.
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