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Headword:
Peripettousi
Adler number: pi,1245
Translated headword: they bake a crust around [something]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they hide [it].[1]
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "they hide their wickedness with a word." That is, they are accustomed to misuse the word "horse" for their wickedness.[2]
And
Menander [writes]: "[they] fearing and suspecting that the Romans had devised something and were wrapping with the cover of retreat whatever their devilry might be."[3] That is, hiding [it].
Peripettousi: perikaluptousin. Aristophanês Ploutôi: onomati peripettousi tên mochthêrian. toutestin eiôthasi tôi tou hippou onomati katachrêsthai eis tên mochthêrian. kai Menandros: dediotes kai dianooumenoi mêchanasthai ti Rhômaious kai prokalummati apodraseôs peripettein ho ti an eiê autois to panourgêma. toutesti perikaluptein.
Notes:
[1] The headword, extracted from the first quotation given, is third person plural, present indicative active, of
peripe/ssw, Attic
peripe/ttw.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 159 (web address 1), with scholion; quoted already at
mu 1308.
[3] Not
Menander [sc. Protector], but Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.9.13, as de Boor pointed out.
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 December 2009@17:17:19.
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