Χεσᾶς

shitter

Translated by David Whitehead29 Apr 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

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Prokleides, as Aristophanes says. See under 'wanting to shit'.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Χεσᾶς· ὁ Προκλείδης, ὥς φησιν Ἀριστοφάνης. καὶ ζήτει ἐν τῷ χεζητιῶν.

Betacode

*xesa=s: o( *proklei/dhs, w(/s fhsin *)aristofa/nhs. kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| xezhtiw=n.

chi 182, on Aristophanes, Birds 790 (web address 1). The name there, correctly, is Patrokleides. (For the scribal abbreviation of Patro- to Pro-, deriving from the abbreviation of the nomen sacrum path/r "father", cf. M.L. West, Textual Criticisim and Editorial Technique (Stuttgart 1973) 27-28.)