Ἀλοκίζειν
to trace a furrow
Translated by Jennifer Benedict26 May 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes [writes]: "me, I have been wanting to trace a furrow [in] my place."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀλοκίζειν· Ἀριστοφάνης· ἐγὼ δ' ἀλοκίζειν ἐδεόμην τὸ χωρίον.
Betacode
*)aloki/zein: *)aristofa/nhs: e)gw\ d' a)loki/zein e)deo/mhn to\ xwri/on.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Wasps 850. Scholiasts to the line -- not cited here -- saw its point. As Philokleon is a juror, his "place" is not the farm it might have been in another context but his voting-tablet (pinakion); a layer of wax on it enabled him to indicate, in trials without fixed penalty, whether he favoured the one proposed by the plaintiff (long line) or the defendant (short line). See MacDowell (below) 244 with 146.
For the verb, see also eta 256.