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*)epeti/lhsen
Adler number: epsilon,2095
Translated headword: emptied out [filth]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] evacuated its dung.
Aristophanes [writes]: "but this guy emptied out such a great amount of charcoal on me, like a cuttlefish."[1] For cuttlefish, when they are being hunted, discharge out of the sac that is attached to them, wishing to muddy the place around them, so that they are not clearly visible to those chasing them.
*)epeti/lhsen: e)ceke/nwse th\n ko/pron. *)aristofa/nhs: o( de\ th=s mari/lhs moi suxnh\n w(s e)peti/lhsen, w(/sper shpi/a. qhrw/menai ga\r ai( shpi/ai e)nafia=sin e)k tou= proso/ntos au)tai=s qolou=, tara/ttein boulo/menai to\n par' au)tai=s to/pon, i(/na mh\ katafanei=s w)=si toi=s qhrw=sin.
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; economics; geography; imagery; medicine; science and technology; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Emily Rossow on 27 September 2006@03:12:57.
Vetted by:William Hutton (modified translation, added note, link, and keywords) on 27 September 2006@03:13:51.
David Whitehead (x-ref; cosmetics; raised status) on 27 September 2006@05:57:41.
David Whitehead on 7 October 2012@05:57:51.
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