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Αὐτόπρεμνον · uprooted, pulled up by the roots (α 4516) · 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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α4512autonomously-governed polis
α4513you can't keep yourself [yet] you keep dogs
α4514that very night
α4515candidly, from one's own experience
α4516uprooted, pulled up by the roots
α4517myself
α4518himself
α4519myself
α4520he is playing the pipe to himself

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Αὐτόπρεμνον

uprooted, pulled up by the roots

Translated by Jennifer Benedict8 Aug 2001Vetting: high6 revisions

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1 note · 27 words

Translation

[Meaning] with difficulty, root and branch, roots and all, or great.¹ Aristophanes [writes] about Aeschylus: "charging in with his arguments uprooted, to scatter many wallows of words."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Αὐτόπρεμνον· δύσκολον, πρόρριζον, αὐτόρριζον, ἢ μέγα. Ἀριστοφάνης περὶ Αἰσχύλου· αὐτοπρέμνοις τοῖς λόγοισιν ἐμπεσόντα, συσκεδᾶν πολλὰς ἀλινδήθρας ἐπῶν.

Betacode

*au)to/premnon: du/skolon, pro/rrizon, au)to/rrizon, h)\ me/ga. *)aristofa/nhs peri\ *ai)sxu/lou: au)topre/mnois toi=s lo/goisin e)mpeso/nta, suskeda=n polla\s a)lindh/qras e)pw=n.

Notes (1)

[1] For this glossing cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 903 (next note). That passage, however, has the masculine dative plural of the adjective; the headword itself is neuter nominative/accusative singular, evidently quoted from somewhere else.
2Aristophanes, Frogs 903-4 (web address 1 below); see already alpha 1233; also epsilon 1526, lambda 441.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

α1233Ἀλινδεῖσθαιto roll in the dust[Meaning] to roll around. Also [sc. attested is] a)lindh/qra, [Meaning] a rolling-place. A place where horses cover themselves in dust. Aristophanes [writes]: "scattering many dust-rolls of words". And elsewhere: "and…

Neighbouring entries

α4514Αὐτονυχίthat very night α4515Αὐτοπαθῶςcandidly, from one's own experience α4516Αὐτόπρεμνονuprooted, pulled up by the roots α4517Αὐτόςmyself α4518Αὐτόςhimself

Revision history6 revisions · last 11 Sep 2015

11 Sep 2015 — David Whitehead
3 May 2012augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
18 Aug 2007added cross-references and keyword — Catharine Roth
9 Aug 2001added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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8 Aug 2001Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Αὐτόπρεμνον (Adler number alpha 4516), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 8 Aug 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/4516

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