Βρύκουσα
gobbling
Translated by Jennifer Benedict · 11 Jun 2002 · Vetting: high · 5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning she] eating, devouring.1 From bora/ ["gluttony"], that is boru/kousa ["gobbling"]. "This one in her gobbling says she'll eat my fingers." Aristophanes [writes this in] Birds.2 And in another place: "I'll gobble your lungs and pull out your guts."3
Greek original
Βρύκουσα· ἐσθίουσα, δάκνουσα. παρὰ τὴν βορὰν, οἱονεὶ βορύκουσα. βρύκουσ' ἀπέδεσθαί μού φησι τοὺς δακτύλους. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισι. καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ· βρύκουσά σου τοὺς πλεύμονας καὶ τἄντερ' ἐξαλμήσω.
Betacode
*bru/kousa: e)sqi/ousa, da/knousa. para\ th\n bora\n, oi(onei\ boru/kousa. bru/kous' a)pe/desqai/ mou/ fhsi tou\s daktu/lous. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi. kai\ a)llaxou=: bru/kousa/ sou tou\s pleu/monas kai\ ta)/nter' e)calmh/sw.
Notes (3)
- cf. beta 571, beta 572.↩
- 1From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 367: see note 3 below. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Birds 26 (web address 1 below). The preceding sentence in the gloss is from the scholia to this line. ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Lysistrata 367 (web address 2 below); cf. epsilon 1534.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from (2)
Neighbours in Adler order
Revisions (5)
- Catharine Rothbetacode and other cosmetics
- David Whiteheadtweaking
- David Whiteheadaugmented notes and keywords; cosmetics
- Jennifer Benedicttranslated