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Headword:
*)enapomo/rcetai
*pre/mis
th\n
eu)ruprwkti/an
soi
Adler number: epsilon,1121
Translated headword: [nor shall] Premis wipe his wide-assedness off on you
Vetting Status: high
Translation: That is, [nor shall he] smear [you] with his effeminacy, wipe [it] off. Premis was the target of comedy as a bumboy.[1]
Aristophanes says [sc. these words].
*)enapomo/rcetai *pre/mis th\n eu)ruprwkti/an soi: toute/sti th\n malaki/an e)napoyh/setai, a)poma/cei. katapu/gwn de\ e)kwmw|dei=to o( *pre/mis. *)aristofa/nhs fhsi/n.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 843 (where the name is Prepis: see web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there.
cf. generally
lambda 59.
[1] On
katapu/gwn (
kappa 738) as displaying both this precise meaning and as a general term of abuse see J.Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 210 #462.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 November 2003@11:44:20.
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