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Γεφυρίζων · abusing, catcalling (γ 212) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

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γ208javelins
γ209taster tongue
γ210I taste
γ211taste
γ212abusing, catcalling
γ213Gephyraean (woman)
γ214giving birth
γ215begot
γ216land-cultivator

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Γεφυρίζων

abusing, catcalling

Translated by Jennifer Benedict6 Jun 2003Vetting: high7 revisions

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1 note · 36 words

Translation

[Meaning he who is] treating scornfully, disparaging.¹ Polybius [writes]: "Sulla having sacked Athens↗ was close to destroying the city in anger over the many jokes which Arist[i]on, abusing and mocking him, uttered throughout the whole siege."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Γεφυρίζων· χλευάζων, ἐξευτελίζων. Πολύβιος· ὁ δὲ Σύλλας πορθήσας τὰς Ἀθήνας ἐδέησε μικροῦ διαφθεῖραι τὴν πόλιν θυμῷ διὰ τὰ σκώμματα, ἃ δὴ πολλὰ κατ' αὐτοῦ γεφυρίζων καὶ ἐπικερτομῶν ὁ Ἀρίστων παρ' ὅλην ἀπέρριπτε τὴν πολιορκίαν.

Betacode

*gefuri/zwn: xleua/zwn, e)ceuteli/zwn. *polu/bios: o( de\ *su/llas porqh/sas ta\s *)aqh/nas e)de/hse mikrou= diafqei=rai th\n po/lin qumw=| dia\ ta\ skw/mmata, a(\ dh\ polla\ kat' au)tou= gefuri/zwn kai\ e)pikertomw=n o( *)ari/stwn par' o(/lhn a)pe/rripte th\n poliorki/an.

Notes (1)

[1] Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. On the headword verb gefuri/zw (of which this is the present participle, masculine nominative singular) see LSJ s.v. and further, next note.
2The headword verb literally means 'bridging', and by extension 'shouting from the bridge', i.e. the causeway along which processions from Athens to the Eleusinian Mysteries crossed the river Kephisos and had to endure (?)apotropaic insults from hooded figures gathered there. (On these gephyrismoi see generally Mylonas 256.) Outside lexicography its two occurrences are in Plutarch's Sulla, 6.12 and 13.1 (on the Athenians' mockery of Sulla and his wife Caecilia Metella). The second of these has general parallels with the passage attributed here to 'Polybius', a writer who had died thirty years before Sulla's siege of Athens. Adler, following de Boor, suggests Cassius Dio or John of Antioch; not accepted by Roberto as a fr. of John.

References

C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418 n. 1
G.E. Mylonas, Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries (Princeton 1961)

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Neighbouring entries

γ210ΓεύομαιI taste γ211Γεῦσιςtaste γ212Γεφυρίζωνabusing, catcalling γ213ΓεφυρίςGephyraean (woman)γ214Γειναμέναιςgiving birth

Revision history7 revisions · last 28 Sep 2015

28 Sep 2015Revised — David Whitehead
29 Jan 2015Revised — David Whitehead
8 Sep 2012tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
7 Jun 2012another note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
27 Dec 2009augmented primary note; more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
26 Dec 2009augmented bibliography, added keyword — Catharine Roth
6 Jun 2003expanded note; augmented keywords; added bibliography; cosmetics — David Whitehead
6 Jun 2003Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Γεφυρίζων (Adler number gamma 212), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 6 Jun 2003. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/gamma/212

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗