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Headword:
*)apodu/ntes
Adler number: alpha,3305
Translated headword: stripping off [clothes]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning [they] having stripped themselves off. From a metaphor of athletes, who strip off their outer clothing, so that they may do the choral dance vigorously.
Aristophanes [writes]: "but let us, stripping off, follow [him] with the anapaests."[1]
*)apodu/ntes: a)nti\ tou= a)podusa/menoi. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n a)qlhtw=n, oi(\ a)podu/ontai th\n e)/cwqen stolh\n, i(/na eu)to/nws xoreu/swsin. *)aristofa/nhs: a)ll' a)podu/ntes toi=s a)napai/stois e)pi/wmen.
Notes:
The headword -- aorist active participle, masculine nominative plural, of
a)podu/w (here glossed with the corresponding middle participle) -- is extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 627 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; meter and music; stagecraft
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 February 2001@07:12:13.
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