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Headword:
*ywlo\n
gene/sqai
dei=
se
me/xri
tou=
murri/nou
Adler number: psi,130
Translated headword: you must become cock-bare all the way to the root
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The proverb [occurs] in
Aristophanes in
Knights.[1] It was said in reference to those stripped a long way. But in
Diphilos, in
Offerings to the Dead, it is altered to: as far as the throat.[2]
*ywlo\n gene/sqai dei= se me/xri tou= murri/nou: h( paroimi/a para\ *)aristofa/nei e)n *(ippeu=sin. e)le/xqh de\ e)pi\ tw=n me/xri pollou= dieskulme/nwn. para\ de\ *difi/lw| e)n toi=s *)enagi/smasi parapepoi/htai a)/xri tou= la/ruggos.
Notes:
cf.
Appendix Proverbiorum 5.41.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Knights 964 (web address 1). J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 68 comments: "
ywlo/s all the way to the pubis -- that is, a totally aggressive pederast, all hard-on".
[2]
Diphilus fr. 39 Kock, now 38 K.-A.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 November 2001@06:38:48.
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