Ἐξεκώμασεν
went out revelling
Translated by William Hutton28 Feb 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] committed fornication.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐξεκώμασεν· ἐξεπόρνευσεν.
Betacode
*)ecekw/masen: e)cepo/rneusen.
Notes
- = Hesychius epsilon3683, Lexica Segueriana 224.3, and (according to Adler) the Ambrosian Lexicon (1263).
Outside lexicography, the headword -- third person singular, aorist indicative active, ofe)kkwma/zw -- occurs only in Euripides, Andromache 603 (web address 1), and the specific pejorative meaning attached to it here is surely extrapolated from that context (where it refers to Helen's elopement with Paris). The scholia to the line assign it a wider array of possible meanings:e)cexw/rhsen ,e)cwrxh/sato ,e)cebakxeu/qh ,ei)s ai)sxu/nhn metatra/ph ('departed', 'danced out', 'went on a bacchic frenzy' 'turned to shameful behavior').
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Neighbouring entries
Revision history3 revisions · last 13 Jan 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- expanded note; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton