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Headword:
Apolapseis
Adler number: alpha,3379
Translated headword: you will lap up
Vetting Status: high
Translation: If it is
a)pole/yeis with the epsilon, that is
a)polepi/seis ["you will peel"]. Having peeled the shell. Having peeled [her] just like an egg.[1] But if [it is]
a)pola/yeis ["you will lap up"], [it means] you would quaff. From the metaphor of dogs, and any other creatures which drink by lapping. It later comes [to mean] you will enjoy, you will snatch eagerly, you will drag away.
Homer [writes]: "to lap up with tongues".[2] And
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "knowing you will lap him up as quickly as you can".[3]
Greek Original:Apolapseis: ean dia tou e apolepseis, toutestin apolepiseis. apolepsanta to lemma. apolepisanta hôsper ôou. ean de apolapseis, ekpiêis. apo tôn kunôn hê metaphora, kai hosa laptonta pinei. kai katastrephei de eis to apokerdaneis, apharpaseis, apospaseis. Homêros: lapsontes glôssêisi. kai Aristophanês Nephelais: gnous apolapseis hoti pleiston dunasai tacheôs.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 February 2001@07:37:15.
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