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Headword: *badistikou=
Adler number: beta,20
Translated headword: good at walking
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] swift-footed. Aristophanes [writes]: "as I am hardly good at walking".[1]
Greek Original:
*badistikou=: o)cu/podos. *)aristofa/nhs. w(s o)/ntos ge mh\ badistikou=.
Notes:
The headword is the masculine genitive singular form of badistiko/s, (lit., 'walky'; LSJ entry at web address 1). It is extracted from the quotation given, where it occurs in a genitive absolute construction (hence not translated here as a possessive or with 'of').
[1] Aristophanes, Frogs 128 (web address 2), with the gloss of the scholia there.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry
Translated by: John Arnold on 3 October 2000@14:48:21.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation and notes) on 4 October 2000@04:05:38.
Catharine Roth (supplied headword translation and link, cosmetics) on 3 July 2001@19:38:01.
William Hutton (tweaked translation, augmented note, added keywords, set status) on 21 February 2008@08:43:59.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 18 May 2012@04:25:47.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 31 May 2012@00:31:39.

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