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Headword:
*)onuxi/zetai
Adler number: omicron,411
Translated headword: trims the nails
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] is precise with language. So
Aristophanes [sc. uses the word].[1]
But in the customary usage [it means] to be deceived with the result of some harm.[2]
Also [attested is the phrase] "I will scratch out [
a)p] your food in the Prytaneum with my nails."[3] Meaning I will remove [it]. From a metaphor of having one's nails trimmed. I will remove, he is saying, the food-allowance. They use
a)ponuxi/sai rather than
o)nuxi/sai.
*)onuxi/zetai: a)kribologei=tai. ou(/tws *)aristofa/nhs. e)n de\ th=| sunhqei/a| to\ e)pi\ bla/bh| tini e)capathqh=nai. kai/, a)ponuxiw= sou ta\ 'n pruta/nh| siti/a: a)nti\ tou= a)fairh/somai. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n o)nuxizome/nwn: a)fairh/somai ga/r, fhsi/, th\n si/thsin. a)ponuxi/sai ma=llon le/gousin h)\ o)nuxi/sai.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes fr. 834 Kock (866 K.-A.). Same entry in
Photius (omicron367 Theodoridis).
[2]
Artemidorus,
Interpretation of Dreams 1.22; from an extended passage about dream-related nail-trimming and other personal grooming, explaining the differences in meaning between his usage of
o)nuxi/zetai and previous usage in
Aristophanes. In
Artemidorus' work,
o)nuxi/zetai is the literal act of nail trimming, while
Aristophanes, as we see, used it as a metaphor. See also
epsilon 1802,
epsilon 3885.
[3] A commentator's rough transcription of
Aristophanes Knights 709 (web address 1); from
alpha 3461.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; dreams; food; imagery; poetry; rhetoric
Translated by: Amanda Aponte on 17 December 2009@12:04:36.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (tweaks, cosmetics, cross-references) on 18 December 2009@01:08:51.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 December 2009@03:42:11.
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