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Headword: *qeri/zein
Adler number: theta,238
Translated headword: to harvest, to do summer-work
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning to cast down.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "I'm about to harvest."[2] Meaning to cast down. From a metaphor of people harvesting, because they lay [down] their sheaves;[3] or because they were harvesting of much because of the war.[4]
Greek Original:
*qeri/zein: a)nti\ tou= kataba/llein. *)aristofa/nhs: me/llw ge/ toi qeri/zein. a)nti\ tou= kataba/llein. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n qerizo/ntwn, o(/ti ta\ dra/gmata tiqe/asin: h)\ o(/ti pollou= e)qe/rizon dia\ to\n po/lemon.
Notes:
[1] The glossing verb used here and repeated later in the entry, kataba/llw ('cast down', 'destroy'), seems vague and somewhat incongruous to other comments later in the entry. It is present also in the scholia to Aristophanes (see next note), but Boutens has suggested emending to katalamba/nein ('seize') in the scholia. See further below, n. 3.
[2] Aristophanes, Acharnians 947, with comments derived from the scholia there. The Suda's quotation is a translation of the mock Boiotian dialect in Aristophanes. The original reads: me/llw ga/ toi qeri/ddein (web address 1).
[3] "They lay [down] their sheaves" is an attempt to render the vague Greek phrase ta\ dra/gmata tiqe/asin (literally 'they put the sheaves') in a manner consistent with the gloss 'cast down'. If we emend the gloss to 'seize' an alternative translation might be 'they make the sheaves' (sc. by seizing the grain-stalks and bundling them together). The point is that the speaker of the line is hauling back to Boiotia an Athenian informer packed up in straw. The scholiast is commenting on the man's resemblance to a sheaf of grain, but it is unclear in what sense.
[4] A senseless translation of a senseless text that is probably corrupt. Wilson, in his text of the scholia follows conjectures of Boutens and Rutherford in inserting dia/ before pollou= and ou)k before e)qe/rizon, yielding a clause that could be translated: "or because they did not harvest at frequent intervals because of the war" (sc. (?) so the "harvest" that the Boiotian is receiving is especially welcome).
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Keywords: agriculture; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; food; geography; history; imagery; military affairs; poetry; politics; stagecraft
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 19 February 2008@16:59:48.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (tweaked headword, modified translation, augmented note, added keywords, raised status) on 20 February 2008@01:04:46.
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