Βέμβηξ
top
Translated by Catharine Roth31 Dec 2003Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a wooden spinner.1
"In the wide street the children turned their swift tops by hitting them."2
Aristophanes [writes]: "[I] must not differ from a top." Meaning [I] must be swift-moving and swift-turning. The top is a device, which children turn with a whip. Or a children's toy, like a wheel, which is turned by striking with a whip.3
Also [sc. attested is the related verb]bembhkia=n ["to spin like a top"], [meaning] to whirl around.4
Also [sc. attested is the form]bembhki/zwsin ["they may cause to spin"]. Aristophanes [writes]: "so that they may make themselves spin at leisure in front of us."5
[The dative plural is]be/mbhcin .6
"In the wide street the children turned their swift tops by hitting them."2
Aristophanes [writes]: "[I] must not differ from a top." Meaning [I] must be swift-moving and swift-turning. The top is a device, which children turn with a whip. Or a children's toy, like a wheel, which is turned by striking with a whip.3
Also [sc. attested is the related verb]
Also [sc. attested is the form]
[The dative plural is]