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Headword:
*)ape/blisen
Adler number: alpha,2968
Translated headword: stole away
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] took away. The metaphor[1] [comes] from honeycombs or from those sucking milk.
Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "a cloak-stealer struck me in the back with a club, and I fell [and] was going to shout; but he stole away my himation."[2]
Meaning let [it] fall.
*)ape/blisen: a)fei/leto. h( metafora\ a)po\ tw=n khri/wn h)\ a)po\ tw=n to\ ga/la a)melgo/ntwn. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi: lwpodu/ths pai/ei r(opa/lw| me to\ nw=ton, ka)gw\ pi/ptw me/llw te boa=n: o( d' a)pe/blise qoima/tio/n mou. a)nti\ tou= e)ce/rasen.
Notes:
The headword -- aorist active, third person singular, of
a)pobli/ttw -- is extracted from the quotation given.
[1] The verb
a)pobli/ttw literally describes cutting a honeycomb out of a beehive: see LSJ s.v. and cf.
beta 341,
beta 343.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 497-8 (web address 1 below), with scholion; cf.
alpha 3255.
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 December 2000@23:39:19.
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