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Headword:
Sphêkôdeis
Adler number: sigma,1733
Translated headword: waspish, wasp-like
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] austere.[1]
Emaciated in their bodies; for wasps have a gathered-in stomach.[2]
And
Aristophanes in
Plutus [writes]: "taking a big sharpened waspy." [Meaning a] sharpened timber; [so called] since a wasp [is] sharp in the hindquarters. The locution has been created from the wasp: for timbers that are small and brought-together into a point they call waspies; since also they refer to men concave in their bodies and not with protruding stomachs as waspish.[3]
Interpretation of a dream: wasps appearing are injuries of enemies.[4]
[Note] that horses [are a] source of wasps, but bulls [are one] of bees.[5]
Sphêkôdeis: sklêroi. katischnoi tois sômasi: kai gar hoi sphêkes tên koilian episunêgmenên echousin. kai Aristophanês Ploutôi: megan labontes hêmmenon sphêkiskon. xulon ôxummenon: epei kai ho sphêx oxus ek tôn opisthen. epitetêdeutai hê lexis para ton sphêka: ta gar mikra tôn xulôn kai eis oxu sunêgmena sphêkiskous kalousin: epei kai tous lagarous tois sômasin anthrôpous kai mê prokoilious sphêkôdeis phasi. lusis oneirou: sphêkes phaneisai dusmenôn eisi blabai. hoti hippoi sphêkôn genesis, tauroi de melissôn.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 561, where the headword -- nominative plural -- occurs.
[2] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius sigma871 Theodoridis.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 301, with scholion.
[4] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
[5]
Nicander Theriaca 741, quoted from
beta 453.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 June 2014@05:18:41.
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