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Headword:
Apopatêma
Adler number: alpha,3468
Translated headword: turd, shit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the same thing [as] dung.
Eupolis in
Golden Race [writes]: "for what is that man? A turd [and] a fox."[1]
Cratinus in
Runaway Slaves [writes]: "and when I found Kerkyon shitting on the vegetables this morning I throttled him."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related participle]
a)popathso/menoi ["(they) going to shit"], [meaning] going to empty [themselves] of shit. But a
pa/tos ["path"] [is] the road.[3]
Aristophanes [writes]: "no one sacrifices like they used to or even comes in [sc. to a temple], except the ten thousand and more who come to shit."[4] For
a)po/patos [is] the emptying of the stomach. And
Aristophanes says about Kleonymos: "he went off for a shit and took his army and shat for eight months in golden mountains. -- How much time did it take to close his anus? -- An entire cycle of the moon."[5]
Greek Original:Apopatêma: auto to skubalon. Eupolis Chrusôi genei: ti gar est' ekeinos; apopatêm' alôpekos. Kratinos Drapetisi: ton Kerkuona te heôthen apopatount' epi tois lachanois heurôn apepnixa. kai Apopatêsomenoi, tên kopron kenôsontes. patos de hê hodos. Aristophanês: oudeis thuei toparapan oud' eiserchetai, plên apopatêsomenoi ge plein ê murioi. Apopatos gar hê kenôsis tês gastros. kai Aristophanês peri Kleônumou phêsin: eis apopaton ôicheto stratian labôn kachezen oktô mênas epi chrusôn orôn. posou de ton prôkton chronou xunêgage; têi panselênôi.
Notes:
See also
alpha 3469,
alpha 3470.
[1]
Eupolis fr. 284 Kock, now 306 K.-A.
[2]
Cratinus fr. 49 Kock, now 53 K.-A.
[3] cf. the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 81, where the ambassador reports that the Great King of Persia had gone
ei)s a)po/paton; see n.5 below.
[4]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 1182-4 (web address 1 below); cf.
pi 1732.
[5]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 81-84 (web address 2). For Kleonymos see
kappa 1736 -- but in fact the constipated individual described here is the Great King of Persia; cf. n.3 above.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 August 2001@19:25:34.
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