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Headword: *stro/fis
Adler number: sigma,1223
Translated headword: twister, slippery fellow
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one who turns about easily in his affairs; the metaphor [comes] from a pivot; also one who is easily moved.
Greek Original:
*stro/fis: o( eu)/strofos e)n toi=s pra/gmasin: a)po\ tou= strofe/ws h( metafora/: kai\ o( eu)ki/nhtos.
Notes:
From a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 450, where the headword stro/fis occurs in an anapaestic string of abusive terms for a difficult opponent in a lawsuit. (For others, see kappa 1344, mu 284.)
cf. Pollux 6.130, Hesychius sigma2045.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; law; meter and music; poetry; rhetoric; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 May 2014@01:06:58.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords; cosmetics; raised status) on 8 May 2014@04:11:25.
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