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Headword:
*masxa/lhn
ai)/reis
Adler number: mu,273
Translated headword: you are lifting an armpit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning you are drunk.[1] For drinkers use to lift their armpits in mockery. "And the suitors raised up their hands [and] were dying with laughter."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase], "raising up their hands they each made great prayers".[3]
Greek Original:*masxa/lhn ai)/reis: a)nti\ tou= kwqwnisqh/sh|. oi( ga\r mequ/ontes h)=|ron ta\s masxa/las katamwkw/menoi. kai\ oi( mnhsth=res xei=ras a)ni/sxontes ge/lw| e)/kqanon. kai/, xei=ras a)nasxo/menoi megal' eu)xeto/wnto e(/kastos.
Notes:
[1] cf.
Zenobius 5.7 and other paroemiographers (but more usually with an infinitive than the Suda's indicative). See also
alphaiota 283.
[2] An approximation of
Homer,
Odyssey 18.99 (web address 1). Entry so far also in
Photius (mu139 Theodoridis).
[3] An approximation of
Homer,
Iliad 8.347 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: daily life; definition; epic; food; imagery; medicine; proverbs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 April 2008@07:30:49.
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