Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for epsilon,1621 in Adler number:
Headword:
*)ecemei=n
Adler number: epsilon,1621
Translated headword: to throw up, to vomit forth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to empty oneself out.
Aristophanes [writes]: "don't, I really beg you," -- that is, don't say [it] at all -- "except when I'm about to throw up." Speak, he is saying, when you have waited until I'm about to throw up; for I might throw up more easily [then].[1]
*)ecemei=n: e)kkenou=sqai. *)aristofa/nhs: mh\ dh=q' i(keteu/w: toute/sti mh\ o(/lws ei)/ph|s: plh/n g' o(/te me/llw e)cemei=n. to/te, fhsi/n, le/ge, e)pithrh/sas o(/te me/llw e)cemei=n: r(a=|sta ga\r a)\n ma=llon e)ceme/saimi.
Notes:
The headword, present infinitive of
e)ceme/w, is extracted from the quotation given.
[1] An unmetrical approximation of
Aristophanes,
Frogs 11 (Dionysos to Xanthias: web address 1), with comments derived from the
scholia thereto; cf.
mu 538.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; medicine; poetry
Translated by: William Hutton on 2 March 2007@03:57:55.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (x-ref and another keyword; cosmetics) on 2 March 2007@07:51:18.
David Whitehead (tweaked hw and tr; augmented notes) on 12 September 2012@06:21:30.
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search