Ἰδίῃς
you would sweat
Translated by Catharine Roth28 Mar 2006Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] you may perspire.1 Aristophanes [writes]: "do not go agitatedly off [...] before you sweat" -- that is perspire -- "and loosen the muscles of the joints of your wings with beating." [This is said] in reference to the dung-beetle.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἰδίῃς· ἱδρώσῃς. Ἀριστοφάνης· μή μοι σοβαρῶς χώρει, πρὶν ἂν ἰδίῃς [τουτέστιν ἱδρώσῃσ] καὶ διαλύσῃς ἄρθρων ἶνας πτερύγων ῥύμῃ. ἐπὶ τοῦ κανθάρου.