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Headword: *sauloprwktia=n
Adler number: sigma,155
Translated headword: to ass-waggle, to bottom-wiggle
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"But I am keen, at any rate, to ass-waggle."
Greek Original:
*sauloprwktia=n: kai\ mh\n proqumou=mai/ ge sauloprwktia=n.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Wasps 1173 (web address 1); Philokleon supposes that this is how high-class Athenians walk.
The verb is unique to this passage. (The scholia there gloss it; the present entry evidently saw doing so as otiose.)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 October 2001@05:06:45.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, link, status) on 1 December 2004@00:40:58.
David Whitehead (augmented note; added a keyword) on 1 December 2004@03:12:22.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 11 October 2010@09:29:53.
David Whitehead on 17 August 2011@05:56:51.
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