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Headword:
*spe/leqos
Adler number: sigma,917
Translated headword: dung, turd
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "wishing to shatter, may he seize with his hand in the darkness a freshly shed turd".[1]
See in the 'bolitos' [entry].[2]
Greek Original:*spe/leqos: *)aristofa/nhs: katea/cai boulo/menos, e)n sko/tw| la/boi th=| xeiri\ spe/leqon a)rti/ws kexesme/non. zh/tei e)n tw=| bo/litos.
Notes:
The headword
spelethos is a false reading of
pelethos.
[1] An alternative version -- from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 595 -- of
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1168-70. The preferred text reads 'wishing to throw a stone ...'. (The object-less
katea/cai has presumably been generated by
kata/ceie/ tis in the preceding clause.)
[2]
beta 366.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 October 2013@10:14:51.
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