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Headword:
*)askhtiko/n
Adler number: alpha,4171
Translated headword: athletics-induced
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one that is] big.
Aristophanes [writes]: "and I see the Athenians, just like wrestlers, pulling their cloaks away from their stomachs, so that they appear to suffer some enormous athletics-induced ailment."[1]
Also [sc. attested in the masculine]
a)skhtiko/s, [meaning] a studious person, a philosopher.
*)askhtiko/n, me/ga. *)aristofa/nhs: kai\ mh\n o(rw= tou\s *)aqhnai/ous, w(/sper palaista\s a)/ndras a)po\ tw=n gaste/rwn ta\ i(ma/tia a)poste/llontas, w(/ste fai/netai a)skhtiko/n ti xrh=ma tou= nosh/matos. kai\ *)askhtiko/s, filomaqh\s, filo/sofos.
Notes:
The headword adjective, neuter singular, is extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 1082-1085 (web address 1 below), with scholion. (Their 'ailment' is a large erection.)
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; medicine; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2002@23:04:37.
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