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Headword: *(wrikw=s
Adler number: omega,185
Translated headword: bloomingly
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] youthfully or decently or at the appropriate time. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "little girl, you ask bloomingly." The old men are teasing the elderly woman because of the enfeebled [state] of her youthful beauty.[1] Also [sc. attested is] w(rikh/n, meaning [a woman] in her prime. For w(/ra [is] one's prime, and w(rai=os [means] being at one's prime. Such nouns [are] in common use.[2] Aristophanes [writes]: "finding a wood-gatherer in her prime, taking her by the middle, picking her up, throwing her down, to deflower her [katagigarta=n]". [Meaning) to press [her] down in the grape-seeds [giga/rtois].[3]
Greek Original:
*(wrikw=s: newterikw=s h)\ eu)prepw=s h)\ kata\ kairo/n. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: w)= meiraki/skh, punqa/nh| ga\r w(rikw=s. prospai/zousi th=| presbu/tidi oi( ge/rontes dia\ to\ teqrumme/non tou= w(rai+smou=. kai\ *(wrikh/n, a)nti\ tou= a)kmai/an. w(/ra ga\r kai\ h( a)kmh/, kai\ w(rai=os, o( a)kmai=os. koina\ de\ ta\ toiau=ta o)no/mata. *)aristofa/nhs: eu(ro/nq' w(rikh\n u(lhfo/ron, me/shn labo/nt', a)/ranta, katabalo/nta katagigarta=n. e)n toi=s giga/rtois spodei=n.
Notes:
The headword adverb (from the adjective w(riko/s) was coined by Aristophanes for use in the passage cited. LSJ render it more loosely, from the context there, as 'so maidenly, so prettily'.
[1] Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 963 (web address 1), with scholion.
[2] cf. omega 149, omega 156, omega 170.
[3] Aristophanes, Acharnians 272, 274-5 (web address 2) with scholia; cf. omega 152, kappa 498.
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Keywords: botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 September 2005@22:23:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 6 September 2005@04:11:29.
Catharine Roth (augmented translation) on 6 September 2005@11:10:47.
David Whitehead (tweaked hw and tr; expanded notes) on 3 November 2013@05:13:13.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 6 June 2014@23:57:48.

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