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Headword: *skorpiai/nesqai
Adler number: sigma,670
Translated headword: to be enraged
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to become savage, to become angry, to speak boldly. "Towards her fellow-actresses, however, [Theodora] was always accustomed to be enraged; for she was subject to great envy."[1] Procopius [writes]: "Theodora was scorpion-like" -- that is, ready to strike -- "and concealing in respect of her anger."[2]
Greek Original:
*skorpiai/nesqai: a)poqhriou=sqai, traxu/nesqai, a)pauqadi/zesqai. e)s me/ntoi ta\s sunqeatri/as ei)w/qei e)saei\ skorpiai/nesqai: baskani/a| ga\r pollh=| ei)/xeto. *proko/pios: h)=n de\ a)/ra h( *qeodw/ra skorpiw/dhs [toute/sti plhktikh/] kai\ o)rgh\n skoteinh/.
Notes:
The headword infinitive is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Procopius, Secret History 9.26.
[2] Procopius, Secret History 1.26 (where however the subject is Antonina rather than Theodora).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 October 2005@01:19:19.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked tr) on 16 October 2005@11:39:33.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 27 August 2010@08:46:28.
David Whitehead on 30 December 2013@03:48:04.

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