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Headword:
*eu)a/
Adler number: epsilon,3353
Translated headword: ew-aa
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An imitation of the sound [bleat] of a billy-goat.
"The billy-goat leapt out of the well bleating the same, ewaa."[1]
Greek Original:*eu)a/: tra/gou fwnh=s mi/mhma. o( de\ tra/gos e)k tou= fre/atos a)peph/dhse to\ au)to\ fwnh/sas eu)a/.
Notes:
We are reminded that the victory cry of maenads (bacchants), as in
Euripides’
Bacchae,
eu)oi= (
epsilon 3785,
epsilon 3787) or
eu)ai/, is based on the bleat of the (sacrificed)
tragos or billy-goat, itself a symbol of Dionysus that gives its name (we must assume) to tragedy. This gives the point to the sinister last cry of
Aristophanes’
Ecclesiazusae, as transmitted at
epsilon 2807 (end, note 27):
eu)ai/, eu)ai/, eu)a/, eu)a/, "the end of
Aristophanes’
Ecclesiazusae." Cf. the baa-ing of a sheep at
beta 250.
[1]
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr.10 Habrich.
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 15 March 2003@04:06:00.
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