Κάττυμα
stitched-leather
Translated by Nick Nicholas13 Oct 2008Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] deceit, trickery.1
Aristophanes [writes]: "[Kleon,] whom one day I shall personally flay to make sandals for the knights." But kattymata are strong and hard pieces of leather, which are placed under sandals and other footwear.2
Aristophanes [writes]: "[Kleon,] whom one day I shall personally flay to make sandals for the knights." But kattymata are strong and hard pieces of leather, which are placed under sandals and other footwear.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κάττυμα· ἀπάτη, δόλος. Ἀριστοφάνης· ὃν ἐγὼ κατατεμῶ τοῖς ἱππεῦσιν εἰς καττύματα. καττύματα δέ ἐστι δέρματά τινα ἰσχυρὰ καὶ σκληρά, ἅπερ τοῖς σανδαλίοις καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ὑποδήμασιν ὑποβάλλεται.
Betacode
*ka/ttuma: a)pa/th, do/los. *)aristofa/nhs: o(\n e)gw\ katatemw= toi=s i(ppeu=sin ei)s kattu/mata. kattu/mata de/ e)sti de/rmata/ tina i)sxura\ kai\ sklhra/, a(/per toi=s sandali/ois kai\ toi=s a)/llois u(podh/masin u(poba/lletai.
Notes (2)
- 1Same entry in Photius, the Lexica Segueriana, and Hesychius. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Acharnians 301 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. kappa 817. For Kleon see kappa 1731. The scholiast is appealing to the metaphorical sense of the related verb
kattu/w (kappa 1127, kappa 1128); but in this passage "stitched leather" (i.e. shoe soles) is being used literally (following the definition the Suda gives immediately below).
For a figurative use of the word, to mean "cobbled together" (music: LSJ s.v.ka/ssuma ), see ps.-Plutarch, De musica 1138B (where Ziegler in the Teubner Moralia -- the edition used by TLG -- emends to the unparalleledkatatu/mmata ; his predecessor Wyttenbach retainedkattu/mata ). However, this is not the sense appealed to here. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- κ1127Καττύεταιis stitched togetherStanding for the [verb] is put together, is sewed together. Aristophanes [writes]: "I myself know [the place] from where, long since, this affair has been stitched together." The metaphor [comes] from shoes.
- κ1128Καττύειstitches together[Meaning he/she/it] prepares. [Meaning he/she/it] sews together, stitches together. "And they said that Baram was stitching together a war with forty thousand." For kattu/w [means] I sew tricks.
Neighbouring entries
Revision history5 revisions · last 20 Nov 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked final note, at NN's prompting — David Whitehead
- more x-refs; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, link, keywords, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Nick Nicholas