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Headword:
*na/pu
Adler number: nu,34
Translated headword: mustard
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [An alternative term for] si/nhpi.[1]
"And [the Council] looked mustard and raised its eyebrows." [Meaning] it looked at [him] sharply and angrily -- for mustard [is] sharp -- and knitted its eyebrows.[2]
Unnaturally, so to speak, or ill-naturedly.
Greek Original:*na/pu: si/nhpi. ka)/bleye na/pu kai\ ta\ me/twp' a)ne/spasen. e)pe/bleye drimu\ kai\ o)rgi/lon [drimu\ ga\r to\ na/pu], kai\ ta\s o)fru=s sune/steilen. to\ w(s ei)pei=n a)fue\s h)/toi kakofue/s.
Notes:
[1] (
sigma 457.) Likewise in other lexica: see the references at
Photius nu28 Theodoridis.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Knights 631 (web address 1), with scholion. The accentuation of the headword, there and elsewhere, is
na=pu.
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; imagery; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 September 2008@09:37:04.
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