Ἀλοῶ
I thresh, smite, drive around, smash
Translated by Jennifer Benedict30 May 2000Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
The [verb that means] I break.1
Also [sc. attested is the active participle]a)low=n ["threshing"], [meaning one who is] leading [beasts] around in a circle from without, as those on the threshing floors [do]. Or beating, from those who are smiting the ears of grain. Aristophanes [writes]: "the fellow will kill me, driving me around since early this morning."2
Aelian [writes]: "some smiting him with fists, some with clubs, some with stones, and some with whatever else fell into their hands forced his life to be cut short."3
Also [sc. attested is the middle participle]a)low/menos , [meaning one who is] being trodden, being rubbed together.
"They laid him down under a tame elephant, so that, for fear that he was going to die from being trodden by the beast, he would not get any sleep."4
Also [sc. attested is the active participle]
Aelian [writes]: "some smiting him with fists, some with clubs, some with stones, and some with whatever else fell into their hands forced his life to be cut short."3
Also [sc. attested is the middle participle]
"They laid him down under a tame elephant, so that, for fear that he was going to die from being trodden by the beast, he would not get any sleep."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀλοῶ· τὸ κλῶ. καὶ Ἀλοῶν, ἔξωθεν ἐν κύκλῳ περιάγων, ὡς οἱ ἐν ταῖς ἅλωσιν. ἢ τύπτων, ἀπὸ τῶν κοπτόντων τοὺς στάχυας. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἀπολεῖ μ' ἀλοῶν ἄνθρωπος ἐξ ἑωθινοῦ. Αἰλιανός· οἱ μέν τινες πυγμαῖς, οἱ δὲ κορύναις, οἱ δὲ λίθοις, οἱ δὲ ὅτι ποτὲ παρέπιπτεν αὐτοῖς ὑποχείριον ἀλοῶντες αὐτὸν, ἀπορραγῆναι τὴν ψυχὴν ἠνάγκασαν. καὶ Ἀλοώμενος, πατούμενος, συντριβόμενος. ἐλέφαντι ἡμέρῳ ὑπέκλιναν αὐτὸν, ἵνα δεδιὼς, ὡς μέλλων ὑπὸ τοῦ θηρὸς ἀλοώμενος ἀποθνήσκειν, ὕπνου μὴ τύχῃ.
Betacode
*)alow=: to\ klw=. kai\ *)alow=n, e)/cwqen e)n ku/klw| peria/gwn, w(s oi( e)n tai=s a(/lwsin. h)\ tu/ptwn, a)po\ tw=n kopto/ntwn tou\s sta/xuas. *)aristofa/nhs: a)polei= m' a)low=n a)/nqrwpos e)c e(wqinou=. *ai)liano/s: oi( me/n tines pugmai=s, oi( de\ koru/nais, oi( de\ li/qois, oi( de\ o(/ti pote\ pare/pipten au)toi=s u(poxei/rion a)low=ntes au)to\n, a)porragh=nai th\n yuxh\n h)na/gkasan. kai\ *)alow/menos, patou/menos, suntribo/menos. e)le/fanti h(me/rw| u(pe/klinan au)to\n, i(/na dediw\s, w(s me/llwn u(po\ tou= qhro\s a)low/menos a)poqnh/skein, u(/pnou mh\ tu/xh|.
Notes (4)
- cf. generally alpha 1305, alpha 1321.↩
- 1Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 2. ↩
- 3Aelian fr. 67c Domingo-Forasté (64 Hercher); cf. mu 770, tau 940, upsilon 639. ↩
- 4Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Aelian again.)
Linked from4 entries
- α1368Ἅλωthreshing-floorThe nominative [is] a(/lw. For the a(/lws [version is] a modern mistake.
- α1372ἉλῶαHaloaIt is an Attic festival. Philochorus says it was named from the fact that men in those days spent their time on the threshing floors [halos].
- α1373Ἁλωάςthreshing-floors, orchards[sc. The same as] a(lwni/ai, the places where grain is threshed. It is also tree-bearing ground. [The noun] a(lw|h/ [comes] from the [verb] a(loiw= with an iota. "Wasting Oeneus' orchard." But [sc. the headword] a(lwa/s…
- α1378Ἁλωήthreshing-floor, field, orchard[Meaning a] corn-bearing area; but a)lo/h [sc. with omicron is different]. [Namely] the unguent.
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Revision history10 revisions · last 12 Jun 2015
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- updated reference in note 2 — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- betacoding and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- aumented notes; restorative and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added notes and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Altered wording, added keywords. — William Hutton
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict