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Ἀποψώμενον · wiping off (α 3660) · Suda

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α3656they are voting off
α3657I vote to acquit
α3658voted-off, voted-out
α3659to break wind
α3660wiping off
α3661to expire, to dry out
α3662beardless men
α3663tuneless melody
α3664away, away from

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Ἀποψώμενον

wiping off

Translated by Jennifer Benedict14 Jun 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

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2 notes · 37 words

Translation

Also [sc. attested is] a)poyw/meqa ["we wipe off"], [meaning] we clean the backside. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "no longer do we wipe off with stones but with garlics."¹ That is, with the leaves of the garlic plants.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀποψώμενον. καὶ Ἀποψώμεθα, καθαίρομεν τὴν πυγήν. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ· ἀποψώμεθα δ' οὐ λίθοις ἔτι ἀλλὰ σκοροδίοις. τουτέστι τοῖς τῶν σκορόδων φύλλοις.

Betacode

*)apoyw/menon. kai\ *)apoyw/meqa, kaqai/romen th\n pugh/n. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: a)poyw/meqa d' ou) li/qois e)/ti a)lla\ skorodi/ois. toute/sti toi=s tw=n skoro/dwn fu/llois.

Notes (2)

The unglossed headword participle is also in other lexica and must be quoted from somewhere -- very probably its only attested appearance outside lexicography: Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.5.
1Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 817-818 (already at alpha 3110, and again sigma 668); see web address 1 below text. The scholia there provide the gloss here. ↩
2Performing this function with leaves (of any kind) sounds reasonable to modern sensibilities. Using stones may be another matter, but cf. e.g. Aristophanes, Peace 1230; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.578E (13.41 Kaibel) and 13.584C (13.47 Kaibel). In the present Aristophanes passage, using leaves rather than stones is presented as a surrender to luxury.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

α3110ἈπεψησάμηνI wiped away[Meaning] I wiped off. For they say a)poya=n for e)kma/ssein ["to wipe off"]. Also [sc. attested is] a)pe/yhsan ["they wiped away"], [meaning] they shook off. "If [our forefathers] fell on the shoulder in some battle…

Neighbouring entries

α3658Ἀποψηφισθένταvoted-off, voted-out α3659Ἀποψοφιεῖνto break wind α3660Ἀποψώμενονwiping off α3661Ἀποψύχεινto expire, to dry out α3662Ἀπώγωνεςbeardless men

Revision history5 revisions · last 12 Oct 2015

12 Oct 2015tweaked betacode and link — Catharine Roth
14 Jan 2015expanded some refs — David Whitehead
9 Apr 2012augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
22 Aug 2002restorative and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
15 Jun 2001augmented notes; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
14 Jun 2001Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀποψώμενον (Adler number alpha 3660), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 14 Jun 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/3660

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 ↗