Ἐξεμεῖν

to throw up, to vomit forth

Translated by William Hutton2 Mar 2007Vetting: high2 revisions

1 note · 50 words

[Meaning] to empty oneself out. Aristophanes [writes]: "don't, I really beg you," -- that is, don't say [it] at all -- "except when I'm about to throw up." Speak, he is saying, when you have waited until I'm about to throw up; for I might throw up more easily [then].¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐξεμεῖν· ἐκκενοῦσθαι. Ἀριστοφάνης· μὴ δῆθ' ἱκετεύω· τουτέστι μὴ ὅλως εἴπῃς· πλήν γ' ὅτε μέλλω ἐξεμεῖν. τότε, φησίν, λέγε, ἐπιτηρήσας ὅτε μέλλω ἐξεμεῖν· ῥᾷστα γὰρ ἂν μᾶλλον ἐξεμέσαιμι.

Betacode

*)ecemei=n: e)kkenou=sqai. *)aristofa/nhs: mh\ dh=q' i(keteu/w: toute/sti mh\ o(/lws ei)/ph|s: plh/n g' o(/te me/llw e)cemei=n. to/te, fhsi/n, le/ge, e)pithrh/sas o(/te me/llw e)cemei=n: r(a=|sta ga\r a)\n ma=llon e)ceme/saimi.

Notes (1)

The headword, present infinitive of e)ceme/w, is extracted from the quotation given.
1An unmetrical approximation of Aristophanes, Frogs 11 (Dionysos to Xanthias: web address 1), with comments derived from the scholia thereto; cf. mu 538. ↩

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μ538ΜέλλωI am about [to do], I put off [doing][Used] in reference to I am slow [sc. to do something]. And [used] in in reference to future time in Thucydides. And Sophocles [writes]: "for always putting off doing something I have destroyed my present and absent…

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ε1619Ἐξελίσσουσιthey turn out ε1620Ἐξελοφίζετοused to be quarried out ε1621Ἐξεμεῖνto throw up, to vomit forth ε1622Ἐξέμηνανthey drove mad ε1623Ἐξεμηρύσατοextricated one's self

Revision history2 revisions · last 12 Sep 2012

12 Sep 2012tweaked hw and tr; augmented notes — David Whitehead
2 Mar 2007x-ref and another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
2 Mar 2007Translated — William Hutton

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