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Headword:
*kexh/nh
Adler number: kappa,1465
Translated headword: I was open-mouthed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The contraction in
kexh/nh [is] Attic. For they contract epsilon and alpha into eta, and it is a coalescence from
kexh/nea.[1] Those who are paying intense attention to something have their mouths open. It may be by way of a metaphor from birds who are still young chicks, who have their mouths open in expectation of food; so it is equivalent to "To hear a bit of
Aeschylus' works was nourishment to me".
Greek Original:*kexh/nh: h( sunai/resis tou= kexh/nh *)attikh/. to\ ga\r e kai\ a ei)s h sunairou=si, kai\ e)sti\ sunaloifh\ a)po\ tou= kexh/nea. oi( de\ sfo/dra prose/xonte/s tini kexh/nasi. du/natai de\ ei)=nai kata\ metafora\n tw=n o)rni/qwn tw=n e)/ti neottw=n, th\n trofh\n prosdexome/nwn kai\ kexhno/twn. oi(=on ou)=n trofh/ moi h)=n to\ a)kou=sai/ ti tw=n *ai)sxu/lou.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 10, where the hero Dikaiopolis, recounting some recent experiences of pleasure and pain, recalls how at a recent theatrical festival he was "open-mouthed" (i.e. agog) in anticipation of watching a revival of a play of
Aeschylus (
alphaiota 357), only to be stunned when the herald announced one by
Theognis (
theta 137). The verb is the pluperfect of
xa/skw (cf.
kappa 1461,
kappa 1462,
kappa 1463,
kappa 1464,
kappa 1466,
kappa 1467) and should therefore have an augment; editors accordingly print
'kexh/nh in
Aristophanes' text, assuming that the augment underwent prodelision after the final long vowel of the preceding word
dh\, and several ancient grammarians cite the verb in the full form
e)kexh/nh.
[1] The fullest version of the Aristophanic scholium (in codd. E
*g) notes that
kexh/nea is an Ionic form. It is not actually attested, but other 1st person singular pluperfects of similar formation are, e.g.
h)/|dea "I knew" (
Homer,
Iliad 14.71;
Herodotos 2.150)
Keywords: biography; comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; stagecraft; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Alan Sommerstein on 8 July 2003@09:51:21.
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