[Meaning] the (?)question.
*diente/reuma: to\ e)rw/thma.
The headword occurs (genitive case) in
Aristophanes,
Clouds 166 (web address 1);
Aristophanes has coined it for use in Strepsiades' ironic tribute to the sharpsightedness of Chairephon (
chi 158,
chi 159,
chi 160) in discerning an acoustic function in a gnat's anus. Henderson translates it as "enterology" (web address 1 but see English translation), and note Dover ad loc: "Archippos 25.3 uses
e)ntereu/ein of a fishmonger gutting fish. It is possible that by
di- Ar. means to suggest the many words which imply perspicacity or thoroughness, e.g.
dieide/nai,
dianoei=sqai,
diasko/pein,
diereuna=n, etc.".
The Suda's gloss
to\ e)rw/thma, also in ps.-
Zonaras, follows the
scholia vetera, but the noun transmitted is held to be corrupt; it ought to be
to\ e)pino/hma or the like.
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