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Headword:
*peri\
po/da
Adler number: pi,1258
Translated headword: round the foot
Vetting Status: high
Translation: As if [to say] fitting exactly, like one's shoes to one's feet.
Plato [Comicus writes]: "to me this affair is as [if] round the foot."[1] And in
Goods and Chattels [he writes]: "and fitting his ways as [if] round the foot."[2]
Greek Original:*peri\ po/da: oi(=on a(rmo/tton sfo/dra, w(s ta\ u(podh/mata toi=s posi/. *pla/twn: w(s e)sti/ moi to\ xrh=ma tou=to peri\ po/da. kai\ e)n *skeuai=s: kai\ toi=s tro/pois a(rmo/tton w(s peri\ po/da.
Notes:
Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius pi739 Theodoridis.
On this idiom see generally LSJ s.v.
pou=s, 6.c.
[1]
Plato Comicus fr. 197 Kock (221 K.-A.).
[2]
Plato Comicus fr. 129 Kock (137 K.-A.).
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; imagery
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 August 2010@06:12:50.
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