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Headword: *sumpodi/sas
Adler number: sigma,1396
Translated headword: having bound the feet together
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Having tied the feet together.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "having tattooed them and bound their feet together,[2] along with Adeimantos[3] the son of Leukolophos[4] I will swiftly dispatch them below Earth."
Greek Original:
*sumpodi/sas: sundh/sas tou\s po/das. *)aristofa/nhs: sti/cas au)tou\s kai\ sumpodi/sas, met' *)adeima/ntou tou= *leukolo/fou kata\ gh=s taxe/ws a)pope/myw.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Frogs 1511-14 (web address 1), with scholion.
[1] The headword (evidently excerpted from the full quotation which follows) is the aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of sumpodi/zw.
[2] On Pluto's odd threat see Dover, pp. 382-3). Owners hobbled their slaves to prevent them from running away and tattooed them as well so that, if they escaped anyway, they might be identified and returned (Dover, loc. cit.).
[3] See under alpha 453. Elected Athenian general, 407-405 BCE (Develin, person no. 31); cousin of Alkibiades (alpha 1280, Develin, no. 84). In the Athenian Assembly, he alone had opposed a decree to cut off enemy prisoners' right hands -- subsequently becoming the only Athenian captive whose life Lysander spared after the Spartan victory at Aegospotami in 404. But in Athens he was deemed a traitor: see Xenophon, Hellenica 2.1.30-32 (web address 2).
[4] The father of Adeimantos is Leukolophides -- cf. Plato, Protagoras 315E (web address 3). Following Aristophanes, the Suda shortens the patronymic. [Adler's apparatus notes that a marginal comment in ms A adds here the instance, from Genesis 22.9, of Abraham binding the feet of Isaac.]
References:
K.J. Dover, Aristophanes: Frogs, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993
R. Develin, Athenian Officials 684-321 BC, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; history; law; military affairs; politics; religion
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 22 July 2007@23:24:37.
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