Ἀπ' ἀκροφυσίων λόγους ἐνδεικνύναι
to show words from bellows
Translated by Jennifer Benedict30 Nov 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
That is novel and newly-made [words]. Aristophanes [writes]: "to show words both refined and witty all from bellows and from frameworks."1 For by "from bellows" he is speaking of ones freshly made and as if from the fire,2 while "from frameworks" suggests what is freshly formed and structured. For a framework [kinnabos] [is] the form at which modellers and painters look and set up when moulding and painting. Many use [this word].3