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Headword:
*stro/bei
Adler number: sigma,1206
Translated headword: whirl, whirl about
Vetting Status: high
Translation: That is, interrogate, put to the test;[1] turn around here and there, making something dense and intelligent, examining [something] sensible.[2]
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "now meditate and examine closely and whirl yourself about in every way, concentrating."[3] And elsewhere: "attack and whirl [him] about. For now you have [him] by the middle." The metaphor is from wrestlers seizing [sc. opponents] by the waist and from this becoming the stronger [sc. competitors].[4]
Greek Original:*stro/bei: toute/stin a)na/krine, doki/maze: peri/fere th=|de ka)kei=se, pukno/n ti kai\ suneto\n poih/sas, fro/nimon skeya/menos. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: fro/ntize dh\ kai\ dia/qrei kai\ pa/nta tro/pon sauto\n stro/bei puknw/sas. kai\ au)=qis: a)ll' e)/piqi kai\ stro/bei. nu=n ga\r e)/xetai me/sos. h( metafora\ a)po\ tw=n palaistw=n tw=n ta\ me/sa lambano/ntwn kai\ e)k tou= krei/ttonos genome/nwn.
Notes:
The headword (extracted from the first of the quotations given but also illustrated by the second) is the present active imperative, second person singular, of the contract verb
strobe/w,
I whirl, twirl about; cf.
sigma 1205 and see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] These initial glossing verbs are also second person singular imperatives, respectively from
a)nakri/nw (
I examine closely, interrogate) and
dokima/zw (
I assay, test); see generally LSJ s.vv.
[2] Following a scholion (=
scholia vetera) to the Aristophanic passage about to be quoted: see next note.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 700-702 (web address 1); Dover, pp. 186-8, esp 188. The chorus urges Strepsiades to think for himself (e.g. concentrate on his own problem), as he twists and turns (and perhaps curls or
concentrates himself into a ball) while the bedbugs are biting at him. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that mss GM omit
dh\ (emphatic
now); also that ms G lacks
sauto\n (
yourself).]
[4]
Aristophanes,
Knights 387-388 (web address 2), with scholion to 388. The chorus cheer on the sausage-seller, who is locked in a demagogic debate with Paphlagon (= Kleon:
kappa 1731, and Develin no. 1659, p. 476).
References:
K.J. Dover, Aristophanes: Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
R. Develin, Athenian Officials 684-321 BC, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989
Associated internet addresses:
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Translated by: Ronald Allen on 10 January 2013@01:45:10.
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