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Headword: *)hperopeu/ein
Adler number: eta,426
Translated headword: to hoodwink
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to deceive.[1]
[Meaning] to defraud, and [to do] the things associated with that. Aristophanes [writes]: "it is your task with it to roast and turn and hoodwink [...] and afford him everything, except the things the cup knows." He is speaking about Kinesias, [saying] that he was fixated on copulation: [sc. so the phrase means] except the things we swore on the cup not to do. That is, to copulate. It is an oath relating to the cup:[2] "never shall I willingly comply with my husband;" nor "if he forces me by force against my will, I shall be a bad provider and shall not move myself."[3]
Greek Original:
*)hperopeu/ein: e)capata=n. paralogi/zesqai, kai\ ta\ tou/tois e)pakolouqou=nta. *)aristofa/nhs: so\n e)/rgon e)sti\ tou=t' o)pta=n kai\ tre/fein ke)chperopeu/ein kai\ pa/nq' u(pe/xein, plh\n w(=n su/noiden h( ku/lic. peri\ *kinhsi/ou fhsi/n, o(/ti katwferh\s h)=n ei)s sunousi/an: plh\n w(=n sunwmosa/meqa mh\ poiei=n e)pi\ th=s ku/likos. toute/sti sunousia/zein. e)/sti de\ o(/rkos o( e)pi\ th=s ku/likos: ou)de/poq' e(kou=sa ta)ndri\ tw=| 'mw=| pei/somai. ou)de/ m' a)/kousan bia/setai bi/an, kakw=s pare/cw kou)xi\ proskinh/somai.
Notes:
See also eta 427.
[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 3.399, where this present infinitive occurs.
[2] An approximation of Aristophanes, Lysistrata 839-41 (read "him" for the present "it", and "torture" for "turn"), with scholion; cf. kappa 2666. (The oaths by the cup, kylix, have been taken at lines 194-237 of the play.)
[3] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 223-8 (without the repetition); cf. pi 2730.
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; religion; stagecraft; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 October 2006@08:37:12.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 15 October 2006@16:22:54.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 16 October 2006@03:14:53.
David Whitehead on 18 December 2012@07:03:18.

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