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Headword: *sifwni/zein
Adler number: sigma,512
Translated headword: to siphon, to suck
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Strictly speaking in reference to fluids, the [verb that means] to draw [them] off. But Aristophanes misuses it when he says 'we are siphoning the grain'.
Greek Original:
*sifwni/zein: kuri/ws e)pi\ tw=n u(grw=n, to\ a)pospa=n. *)aristofa/nhs de\ katexrh/sato, ei)pw/n, sifwni/zomen to\n si=ton.
Note:
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 557 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. (Pollux 6.19 mistakenly recalls the line as mentioning oi)=non "wine" rather than si=ton "grain"; Hall & Gelhart's OCT, followed by Perseus, adopts this reading). Cf. epsilon 619.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; food; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 April 2003@04:28:18.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (augmented note, added link, set status) on 17 December 2004@12:02:51.
David Whitehead (expanded and recast note) on 19 December 2004@04:44:04.
David Whitehead on 18 August 2011@06:15:25.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 12 June 2012@01:41:38.
David Whitehead on 29 December 2013@06:24:27.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 14 December 2015@19:15:11.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 25 February 2022@15:49:56.
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