Χέρνιβα
hand-bath
Translated by Jennifer Benedict19 Mar 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Χέρνιβα προπαροξυτόνως κατὰ τὴν ἀναλογίαν, παρὰ δὲ τοῖς ποιηταῖς παροξυτόνως. καὶ αὖθις· χερνιπτομένους τε καὶ πρὸς αὐτοῖς τοῖς βωμοῖς ἀπέκτειναν.
Betacode
*xe/rniba proparocuto/nws kata\ th\n a)nalogi/an, para\ de\ toi=s poihtai=s parocuto/nws. kai\ au)=qis: xerniptome/nous te kai\ pro\s au)toi=s toi=s bwmoi=s a)pe/kteinan.
Notes (2)
- As in chi 209, the headword is the accusative singular of the noun↩
xe/rniy , which never appears in the nominative. See also chi 211, and chi 212.- 1That is, the acute accent is on the antepenult (
xe/rniba ), but in poetry, the acute is on the penult (xerni/ba ). Despite this, the paroxytone form is not extant. This portion of the entry is taken from the scholia to Aristophanes, Peace 956 (where the headword appears: web address 1 below). See also Herodian the Grammarian 1.246, as well as Athenaeus Deipnosophists 9.76. ↩- 2Quotation, again at chi 213, unidentifiable. (Adler suggests one of her usual suspects, Aelian.) The form
xerniptome/nous is a present middle/passive participle, masculine accusative plural, of the deponent verbxerni/ptomai ("I wash my hands"). - 1That is, the acute accent is on the antepenult (
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from6 entries
- χ196Χέμετλαchilblains[sc. formed] like xe/rniba ['hand-bath'].
- χ209Χερνίβαhand-bath[Meaning] water. Aristophanes says: "bring the basket and the hand-bath."
- χ211Χέρνιβοςhand-bath"I want to justly reproach [both sides] in common, you who sprinkle the altars from a single hand-bath -- just like relatives -- at Olympia, at Pylai, at Pytho; I could name many other places, if I didn't have to keep…
- χ212Χερνίβωνof ewers, of hand-bathsDemosthenes says: "and [him] laying hold of ewers and baskets". [This] might be from the nominative chernips. The comic poets, too, mention the ewer, as something taken along to sacrifices.
- χ213Χερνιπτομένουςhand-washing, washing hands[Meaning them] bathing their hands. "They killed those who were washing their hands beside the altars themselves."
- χ214Χερνιφθένταpurified"[Hair and a hair-pin] purified, along with an ox." Meaning sacrificed. Also [sc. attested is] xerni/yato, [meaning] they washed their hands.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 8 May 2023
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- modified keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict