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Headword:
*yh=tta
Adler number: psi,78
Translated headword: turbot
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A particular kind of flat-fish. Some [call it] ox-tongue.[1] To certain people it seems in form to be assembled from two skins; but it is divided at the middle, like wasps.
Or it is a bird cut down the middle, like wasps.
Aristophanes [says]: "personally, I think I would cut off half of myself and give it, just as if it were a turbot." Meaning even if it meant cutting off half of myself, I want.[2]
*yh=tta: tw=n plate/wn tis i)xqu/wn. e)/nioi bou/glwsson. dokei= de/ tisin e)k du/o sugkei=sqai derma/twn th\n i)de/an: dih/|rhtai de\ kata\ to\ me/son, w(s oi( sfh=kes. h)\ o)/rneo/n e)sti tetmhme/non kata\ to\ me/son, w(s oi( sfh=kes. *)aristofa/nhs: e)gw\ de/, ka)\n w(sperei\ yh=ttan dokw= dou=nai e)mauth=s partamou=sa q' h(/misu. a)nti\ tou= ka)\n sumbh=| te/mnesqai/ mou to\ h(/misu, bou/lomai.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; medicine; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 January 2006@07:28:33.
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