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Headword:
*skwmma/tion
Adler number: sigma,687
Translated headword: little jest
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also [sc. attested is]
skw/mmata ['jests']: a little jest,[1] shit.
Aristophanes [writes]: "with no care for me, but only to the point of learning whether I might emit some little jest while under pressure. Considering these things I played the ape a little."[2]
*skwmma/tion. kai\ skw/mmata: skwmma/tion, ska/ton. *)aristofa/nhs: ou)de\n a)/r' e)mou= me/lon, oi(=on de\ mo/non ei)de/nai skwmma/tion ei)/ pote/ ti qlibo/menos e)kbalw=. tauti\ katidw\n u(po/ ti mikro\n e)piqh/kasa.
Notes:
[1] This much of the entry is lacking, Adler reports, in mss AV (i.e. they have only the headword and the gloss 'shit'). Ms F omits the whole entry.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1288-1290, also quoted at
mu 533 and
epsilon 2333. The entry seems to suggest that there is punning in the passage between the words for "little jest" and "shit".
Translated by: William Hutton on 1 March 2014@07:35:34.
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