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Headword:
*skw=r
a)ei/nwn
Adler number: sigma,691
Translated headword: ever-flowing shit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Some say that
Strattis was the first to use [the word] "shit", in the drama of
Atalas;[1] but [this is] false; for it was much later than the
Frogs. But "ever-flowing shit" is that which always flows:
na/on, [contracted]
nw=n. But "shit" [is] excrement, dung.[2] And it is heteroclite, for the genitive [is]
skato/s.
Aristophanes in
Frogs [writes]: "then much filth and ever-flowing shit."[3]
*skw=r a)ei/nwn: tine/s fasi tw=| skw=r prw=ton kexrh=sqai *stra/ttin e)n *)ata/lantos dra/mati: yeu=dos de/: pollw=| ga\r u(/steron tw=n *batra/xwn. skw=r de\ a)ei/nwn to\ a)ei\ r(e/on: na/on, nw=n. skw=r de\ a)popa/thma, ko/pros. kai\ e)/stin e(tero/kliton: h( ga\r genikh\ skato/s. *)aristofa/nhs *batra/xois: ei)=ta bo/rboron polu\n kai\ skw=r a)ei/nwn.
Notes:
References:
J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse: obscene language in Attic Comedy (New Haven 1975) 192 #414
Aristophanes, Frogs, edited with introduction and commentary by K.J. Dover (Oxford 1993) 209
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Keywords: chronology; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 March 2001@00:35:47.
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