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Ἄπερρε · be off! (α 3037) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

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α3033I kicked up a mothon [and] cried cuckoo
α3034beat back
α3035endless
α3036having finished work
α3037be off!
α3038I disgorge
α3039I put forward the fleece
α3040boundless, countless
α3041limitless, incomprehensible

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Ἄπερρε

be off!

Translated by Jennifer Benedict15 Jan 2001Vetting: high7 revisions

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3 notes · 45 words

Translation

Meaning go hang, go to ruination! Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "you are prattling - be off!"¹
So a)/perre [means] be destroyed! Also [sc. attested is] e)/rrwn ["disappearing"], [meaning] perishing.² "I am looking for him, wandering about since the early morning". [So says] Pherecrates in Good-For-Nothings.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄπερρε· ἀντὶ τοῦ φθείρου, πορεύου μετὰ φθορᾶς. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· ὑθλεῖς, ἄπερρε. Ἄπερρε οὖν ἀποφθάρηθι. καὶ Ἔρρων, φθειρόμενος. ζητῶ περιέρρων αὐτὸν ἐξ ἑωθινοῦ. Κραπατάλλοις Φερεκράτης.

Betacode

*)/aperre: a)nti\ tou= fqei/rou, poreu/ou meta\ fqora=s. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: u(qlei=s, a)/perre. *)/aperre ou)=n a)pofqa/rhqi. kai\ *)/errwn, fqeiro/menos. zhtw= perie/rrwn au)to\n e)c e(wqinou=. *krapata/llois *ferekra/ths.

Notes (3)

The headword, extracted from the first quotation given, is second-person singular imperative of a)pe/rrw.
1Aristophanes, Clouds 783 (web address 1 below), with scholion. For the verb, cf. epsilon 2916. ↩
2For this sense of e)/rrw see generally LSJ s.v., II.3. ↩
3Pherecrates fr. 90 Kock (now 95 K.-A.), which has the compound perie/rrwn; cf. again epsilon 3069 and pi 1125.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

α3035Ἀπέρατονendless α3036Ἀπεργασάμενοςhaving finished work α3037Ἄπερρεbe off!α3038ἈπερεύγομαιI disgorge α3039Ἀπερείδομαι τὸν πόκονI put forward the fleece

Revision history7 revisions · last 26 Jul 2021

26 Jul 2021tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
24 Dec 2014Revised — David Whitehead
3 Nov 2011augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
3 Nov 2011updated link, added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
24 Apr 2008cosmetics — Catharine Roth
18 Aug 2002restorative and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
15 Jan 2001modified headword and translation; augmented notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
15 Jan 2001Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἄπερρε (Adler number alpha 3037), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 15 Jan 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/3037

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗