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Headword:
*)/ekstreyon
Adler number: epsilon,626
Translated headword: turn inside out
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] change! From a metaphor of clothes which are dirty and being turned inside out. For changing the part next to the body to the outside is called turning a garment inside out. Change, he is saying, your ways; alter [them].
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "turn your manner inside out as quickly as possible."[1]
*)/ekstreyon: meta/bale. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n r(upoume/nwn kai\ e)kstrefome/nwn i(mati/wn. e)kstre/yai ga\r i(ma/tion le/getai to\ a)lla/cai to\ pro\s to\ sw=ma me/ros e)/cw. a)/llacon fhsi/, tou\s tro/pous sou, meta/bale. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: e)/kstreyon w(s ta/xista to\n sautou= tro/pon.
Notes:
The headword is aorist imperative of
e)kstre/fw, extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 88 (web address 1), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 January 2007@01:10:06.
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