Ἀποσιμῶσαι
to moon [someone]; to make ships swerve
Translated by Jennifer Benedict3 Jun 2001Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to bend over and extend the buttock naked.1 Philippus [sc. uses the word thus].2 But Thucydides [sc. uses it to mean] making the ships swerve.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀποσιμῶσαι· τὸ ἐπικύψαι καὶ τὴν πυγὴν προθεῖναι γυμνήν. Φίλιππος. Θουκυδίδης δὲ τὸ μετεωρίσαι τὰς ναῦς.
Betacode
*)aposimw=sai: to\ e)piku/yai kai\ th\n pugh\n proqei=nai gumnh/n. *fi/lippos. *qoukudi/dhs de\ to\ metewri/sai ta\s nau=s.
Notes (3)
- The headword is aorist active infinitive of the rare verb
a)posimo/w , literally 'I make [someone or something] flat-nosed' (cf. sigma 437). - 1See generally on this J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 181. ↩
- 2Philippus fr. 1 Kock, now 3 K.-A. ↩
- 3Thucydides 4.25.5, with the aorist participle, masculine genitive plural (web address 1 below). Despite this gloss on the word (from the scholia on the passage), modern commentators still debate its meaning here: see chiefly A.W. Gomme, A Historical Commentary on Thucydides iii (Oxford 1956) 465; S. Hornblower, A Commentary on Thucydides ii (Oxford 1996) 183. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history8 revisions · last 27 Sep 2015
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Added italics; cosmetics — Elizabeth Vandiver
- added keyword — David Whitehead
- modified headword and translation; augmented notes; added keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict