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Headword:
Skandalêthra
Adler number: sigma,534
Translated headword: trap-sticks
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the angled pieces of wood in traps. [The term comes] because that which falls in collapses and holds. The props of the traps, which
Archilochus called
r(o/ptra.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "and then, dragging [us] forward, he questions [us], setting up trap-sticks of words." Meaning supports and weights of words.
Skandalêthra: ta en tais pagisin epikampê xula. apo tou sumpiptein kai kratein to empeson. ta petaura tôn pagidôn, ha Archilochos rhoptra ekalesen. Aristophanês: kait' anelkusas erôtai, skandalêthr' histas epôn. anti tou ereismata logôn kai barê.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 687 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
kappa 36. The word extracted for use as the present headword is a neuter noun, in the accusative plural.
cf. generally
Photius sigma276 Theodoridis.
[1]
Archilochus fr. 186; cf.
rho 233,
rho 234.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; poetry; rhetoric; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Amanda Aponte on 20 October 2009@14:55:27.
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