Βωμολοχεύμασι
with the low buffoonery and rascally tricks of the altar-ambushers.
Translated by Robert Dyer12 Feb 2002Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] with all sorts of rascally subterfuges.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Βωμολοχεύμασι· πανουργεύμασι.
Betacode
*bwmoloxeu/masi: panourgeu/masi.
Notes
- Headword and gloss are single nouns in the dative plural. Both nouns, discursively translated here, imply actions by those who are willing to stoop to any subterfuge to make a little money. See Hesychius s.v.
bwmakeu/masi and the scholia to Aristophanes, Peace 748 (Web address 1). In Aristophanes, Knights 902, probably the genesis of the present entry, Cleon addresses the Demos with the wordsoi(/oisi/ m' w)= panou=rge bwmoloxeu/masin tara/tteis , translated 'idle trash' at Web address 2.
For altar-ambushers and their altar-wit see also beta 486, beta 488, beta 489, beta 490, chi 296.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from8 entries
- β484Βωμακεύματαribald jests[no gloss]
- β485Βώμαξscoundrel[Meaning] altar-thief. One who takes from altars before the offering is made. It is applied also to those being craven.
- β486Βωμολοχεύεσθαιaltar-ambusherProperly speaking "altar-ambushers" was the name for those who sat under the altars during the sacrifices and pleaded disarmingly [for a share of the offering], but beyond that [sc. the term is applied to] the pipers…
- β488Βωμολοχεύσαιτο(if one) were to play the wit at the altarMeaning [if] one were to say something vulgar or cheap. Aristophanes in Clouds on corruption of the harmonics: "[them] tuning the harmony that our fathers passed on. But if one of them were to play the wit at the altar…
- β489Βωμολόχοςaltar-ambusher[Meaning] he who lies in wait around the altars, with the purpose of getting something from those who are sacrificing. But metaphorically also [it means] he who flatters certain people, in pretty much the same way, for…
- β490Βωμολόχοςaltar-ambusher[Meaning one who is] an evildoer, sacrilegious. From those who lie in wait for the sacrifices placed on the altars, or for those who perform sacrifices, to ask them and take something. Also [sc. attested is the phrase]…
- δ1650Δυσκολοκάμπτους ᾠδάςintricate-twisted songs[Meaning] ones in broken rhythm/voice. Aristophanes [writes]: "if one of them were to [...] twist a tune, such as these intricate-twisted ones today in the style of Phrynis that singers today sing, let him be creamed,…
- χ296Χιάζεινto play the ChianPraxidamas [says that] Democritus of Chios and Theoxenides of Siphnos were the first to arrange their personal composition [? = poetry] with exharmonic colors [or: to the chromatic scale]; as Isocrates in the Against…
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Revision history4 revisions · last 4 Mar 2016
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked links, added keyword — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Robert Dyer