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Headword:
*peripe/ttousi
Adler number: pi,1245
Translated headword: they bake a crust around [something]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they hide [it].[1]
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "they hide their wickedness with a word." That is, they are accustomed to misuse the word "horse" for their wickedness.[2]
And
Menander [writes]: "[they] fearing and suspecting that the Romans had devised something and were wrapping with the cover of retreat whatever their devilry might be."[3] That is, hiding [it].
*peripe/ttousi: perikalu/ptousin. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: o)no/mati peripe/ttousi th\n moxqhri/an. toute/stin ei)w/qasi tw=| tou= i(/ppou o)no/mati kataxrh=sqai ei)s th\n moxqhri/an. kai\ *me/nandros: dedio/tes kai\ dianoou/menoi mhxana=sqai/ ti *(rwmai/ous kai\ prokalu/mmati a)podra/sews peripe/ttein o(/ ti a)\n ei)/h au)toi=s to\ panou/rghma. toute/sti perikalu/ptein.
Notes:
[1] The headword, extracted from the first quotation given, is third person plural, present indicative active, of
peripe/ssw, Attic
peripe/ttw.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 159 (web address 1), with scholion; quoted already at
mu 1308.
[3] Not
Menander [sc. Protector], but Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.9.13, as de Boor pointed out. After abandoning the siege of Chlomaron (summer of 586), the Romans retreated hastily, but the pursuing Persian troops failed to recognize that their foes were in fact panicked; cf. de Boor (87) and Whitby (55). On Chlomaron, see
alpha 399 and
chi 348. Find related entries at
alpha 399 note.
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 December 2009@17:17:19.
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