[Meaning] prostitution in
Aristophanes: [sc. he writes] "not on account of lewdness."[1] Also [sc. attested is]
mishti/an ["lewdness"], [meaning] one who is prone to intercourse.[2] Not on account, [she] is saying,[3] of indulging my wantonness.
*mishti/a: h( pornei/a para\ *)aristofa/nei: ou)x e(/neka mishti/as. kai\ mishti/an, to\n ei)s ta\s sunousi/as e)pi/foron. ou)x e(/neka, fhsi/, tou= u(phretei=n mou th=| a)selgei/a|.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 989 (Web address 1), with comment derived loosely from the
scholia there (see n. 2). In the
Aristophanes passage the word appears in the genitive case, vs. the nominative case of the headword.
[2]
mishti/an is the accusative case of the headword. At first glance it seems to be a separate lemma from a different source, but in fact it is part of the commentary on the same
Aristophanes passage, presented here in abridged form. In parallel passages from the
scholia the headword appears in the accusative as part of a larger clause discussing the word: "[he is using] 'lewdness' [sc. to describe] that which [not 'one who' as in the Suda] is prone to intercourse."
[3] The old woman, speaking to Chremylos.
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