Βερέσχεθοι
bereschethoi, boobies
Translated by Catharine Roth29 Dec 2003Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the fools. The expression was invented in Aristophanes.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Βερέσχεθοι· οἱ ἀνόητοι. πέπλασται δὲ ἡ λέξις παρὰ Ἀριστοφάνει.
Betacode
*bere/sxeqoi: oi( a)no/htoi. pe/plastai de\ h( le/cis para\ *)aristofa/nei.
Notes
- One of a list of supposed quasi-deities ('Powers of Folly': LSJ) invoked by the sausage-seller in Aristophanes, Knights 635 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; cf. sigma 630.
The very similarbere/sxetoi is glossed thus in Photius and elsewhere; it also, as noted in LSJ s.v., appears in a papyrus glossary from Oxyrhynchus.