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Headword:
*katela/sas
Adler number: kappa,938
Translated headword: having driven down, having subjugated
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] having had sexual intercourse with. [The term comes] from unreasoning beings [i.e. animals].
Greek Original:*katela/sas: sunousia/sas. a)po\ tw=n a)lo/gwn zw/|wn.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Peace 711 (web address 1), with (as primary gloss here) the gloss of the
scholia there. See already at
beta 339 and
delta 843.
The headword itself -- aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of
katelau/nw -- reappears in the same sense in
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 1082; and see also
Theocritus,
Idylls 5.116 (
kath/lasa).
Reference:
J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 162 #261
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Richard Rodriguez on 22 December 2008@15:00:04.
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