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Headword:
*)eci/disen
Adler number: epsilon,1759
Translated headword: oozed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] defecated.
Aristophanes [writes]: "if any Patrokleides amongst you needed a shit he would not have oozed into his cloak, but flown away."
Greek Original:*)eci/disen: a)pepa/thsen. *)aristofa/nhs: ei)/te *patroklei/dhs tis u(mw=n xezhtiw=n ou)k a)\n e)ci/disen ei)s qoima/tion, a)ll' e)/ptato.
Notes:
An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Birds 790-1 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
chi 182.
Dunbar (below) 482 suggests that "on some public occasion [Patrokleides] had had an embarrassing attack of diarrhoea, which he was not allowed to forget."
On the language here see Henderson (below) 187-92.
References:
J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975)
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 November 2000@05:54:35.
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