[Meaning] mis-shapen. "[If only] it were not necessary to bang a snub-nosed or elderly one first! For this [is] intolerable to a free man".[1]
Anasimon: amorphon. kai mêden proteron anaspodêsai anasimon ê presbuteron. ou gar anascheton touto g' eleutherôi.
The headword, accusative singular of this adjective, is extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 939-941 (which has
presbute/ran, i.e. an elderly woman), with scholion. On "bang",
diaspodh=sai (which has here become
a)naspodh=sai;
alpha 2075), see generally J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 172.
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