Ἐξεφύσησεν
blew up
Translated by David Whitehead2 Dec 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] activated, stirred up. Aristophanes took the [term/idea] 'to blow up' from a spark: "throwing in a spark of a Megarian decree he blew up such a great war as to make all Greeks cry at the smoke".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐξεφύσησεν· ἐκίνησεν, ἐτάραξεν. ἀπὸ τοῦ σπινθῆρος δὲ τὸ φυσῆσαι ἔλαβεν Ἀριστοφάνης· ἐμβαλὼν σπινθῆρα Μεγαρικοῦ ψηφίσματος ἐξεφύσησε τοσοῦτον πόλεμον, ὥστε τῷ καπνῷ πάντας Ἕλληνας δακρῦσαι.
Betacode
*)ecefu/shsen: e)ki/nhsen, e)ta/racen. a)po\ tou= spinqh=ros de\ to\ fush=sai e)/laben *)aristofa/nhs: e)mbalw\n spinqh=ra *megarikou= yhfi/smatos e)cefu/shse tosou=ton po/lemon, w(/ste tw=| kapnw=| pa/ntas *(/ellhnas dakru=sai.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Peace 609-611 with scholion; on Pericles (pi 1179, pi 1180, pi 1181) supposedly starting the Peloponnesian War.
For this verb see already epsilon 1681.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 17 Sep 2012
- Revised — David Whitehead
- x-refs — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead