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Headword:
*strefodikopanourgi/a
Adler number: sigma,1196
Translated headword: lawsuit-twisting-villainy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The locution is put together from the characteristic[s] of twisting and blackmailing.[1]
Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "you will soon see the bitterness of your lawsuit-twisting-villainy."
*strefodikopanourgi/a: sunte/qeitai h( le/cis para\ to\ streblo\n h)=qos kai\ sukofantiko/n. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi: pikra\n ta/x' o)/yei strefodikopanourgi/an.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Birds 1468, with scholion.
The Suda transmits this noun as
streph- rather than
streps-, as does one manuscript, but for what is surely a cognate verb see
sigma 1199.
[1] For 'blackmailing' cf.
sigma 1330 and under
sigma 1332.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; law
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 October 2010@06:36:10.
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