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Headword: *)ana/simon
Adler number: alpha,2067
Translated headword: snub-nosed
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[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]
Greek Original:
*)ana/simon: a)/morfon. kai\ mhde\n pro/teron a)naspodh=sai a)na/simon h)\ presbu/teron. ou) ga\r a)na/sxeton tou=to/ g' e)leuqe/rw|.
Notes:
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.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; medicine; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 22 October 2000@00:43:08.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note and keyword) on 23 October 2000@05:41:08.
David Whitehead (added keywords) on 1 August 2002@06:03:54.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; tweaking) on 28 February 2012@03:46:07.
David Whitehead on 4 July 2015@04:09:11.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 6 July 2015@23:41:01.

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