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Βινεῖν · to fuck (β 287) · Suda

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Βινεῖν

to fuck

Translated by Craig Gibson21 Jun 2003Vetting: high7 revisions

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3 notes · 33 words

Translation

[Meaning] to have sexual intercourse with;¹ or to suck.²
In the Epigrams: "sweet it is to fuck. Who denies it? But whenever you ask for money, it becomes more bitter than hellebore" ³.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Βινεῖν· τὸ συνουσιάζειν· ἢ τὸ πιπίζειν. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· ἁδὺ τὸ βινεῖν ἐστι· τίς οὐ λέγει; ἀλλ' ὅταν αἰτῇ χαλκὸν, πικρότερον γίνεται ἑλλεβόρου.

Betacode

*binei=n: to\ sunousia/zein: h)\ to\ pipi/zein. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a(du\ to\ binei=n e)sti: ti/s ou) le/gei; a)ll' o(/tan ai)th=| xalko\n, pikro/teron gi/netai e(llebo/rou.

Notes (3)

See also beta 288.
1From the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 740, where the headword occurs. ↩
2Sense uncertain (the verb pip(p)izein normally means "to chirp like a young bird" or, according to some ancient grammarians, "to give to drink"), but see at pi 1634. Trapp defines pipi/zw as both "chirp" and "suck, lick" in the scholia to Nicander, Theriaca 313.12, this passage, and omicroniota 128. Kriaras notes it in Orneosophion Agroikoteron p.572 Hercher: the falconer dealing with a falcon's head cold smears honey on its palate, and sucks on its nose to draw the honey up (kai\ eu)qe/ws ta/s r(i/nas e)nto\s tou= sto/matos sou ba/llwn pi/pison, i(/na h( i)atrei/a...e)n au)toi=s a)ne/lqh|). Trapp further notes the related meanings "draw up" in Hesychius alpha5202 and "drink" in Hesychius pi2338, Malalas 159.86, Theophanes I 180.15. This sense clearly overlaps with Classical pipi/skw. Cf. pipili/zw "suckle" in Hesychius and still in Modern Greek. *pi/pa "blowjob" in Modern Greek slang may be related, and is close to this context, but is more probably derived from the Italian pipa "smoking pipe", which is the literal meaning of the word; the Turkish for "hookah pipe", tsimpouki, is also used in the same sense; and note e)kpipi/zw from the Latin-Greek glossaries (in LSJ). ↩
3Greek Anthology 5.29.1-2.

References

For the sense and tone of the headword see generally J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 151-153.

Linked from1 entry

β288Βινεῖνto fuck[Meaning] to penetrate. Also "[it is necessary] for me to fuck divided in two". Also [sc. attested is] binh/somen ["we will fuck"]. Aristophanes [writes]: "then having fucked [her], he flew back down again". "So that if…

Neighbouring entries

β285Βίκοςjar β286ΒίκτοραVictor β287Βινεῖνto fuck β288Βινεῖνto fuck β289ΒῖνοςVenus

Revision history7 revisions · last 18 Feb 2016

18 Feb 2016coding — Catharine Roth
20 Sep 2015Revised — David Whitehead
17 Jun 2012cosmetics — Catharine Roth
28 May 2012more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
3 Feb 2009expansion of n.2; material from Nick Nicholas — David Whitehead
1 Feb 2009tweaked tr; modified n.2; cosmetics — David Whitehead
23 Jun 2003augmented notes; added keyword, bibliography; cosmetics — David Whitehead
21 Jun 2003Translated — Craig Gibson

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Βινεῖν (Adler number beta 287), trans. Craig Gibson, 21 Jun 2003. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/beta/287

Translation by Craig Gibson 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 ↗