Ἀποδύντες
stripping off [clothes]
Translated by Jennifer Benedict6 Feb 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Meaning [they] having stripped themselves off. From a metaphor of athletes, who strip off their outer clothing, so that they may do the choral dance vigorously. Aristophanes [writes]: "but let us, stripping off, follow [him] with the anapaests."1