Ἀπασκαρίζειν
to convulse, to twitch
Translated by Jennifer Benedict20 Dec 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes in Broilers [writes]: "to convulse just like a perch on the ground".1 Menander [writes]: "I will convulse with laughter today".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀπασκαρίζειν· Ἀριστοφάνης Ταγηνισταῖς· ἀπασκαρίζειν ὡσπερεὶ πέρκην χαμαί. Μένανδρος· ἀπασκαριῶ σ' ἐγὼ γέλωτι τήμερον.
Betacode
*)apaskari/zein: *)aristofa/nhs *taghnistai=s: a)paskari/zein w(sperei\ pe/rkhn xamai/. *me/nandros: a)paskariw= s' e)gw\ ge/lwti th/meron.
Notes (2)
- More briefly (and with a gloss rather than examples) in Hesychius s.v.↩
- 1Aristophanes fr. 495 Kock, now 510 K.-A. ↩
- 2Menander fr. 839 Kock, now 881 K.-A.
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- Translated — Jennifer Benedict