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Headword:
Peripsein
Adler number: pi,1354
Translated headword: to wipe around
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to wipe off, to sponge.
Aristophanes [writes]: "Look! Take this hare's tail, so to wipe around the rheum [from the eyes]."
Peripsein: ekmassein, spongizein. Aristophanês: idou, dechou kerkon lagô, hôste tas lêmas peripsein.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Knights 909 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
kappa 1402.
The infinitive is better spelled
periyh=n, from
periya/w; this is the reading of ms M (as corrected), and Pearson's reading in
Aristophanes.
cf. the related noun
peri/yhma at
pi 1355.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 January 2012@23:08:38.
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