Κολετρῶσι
they trample on
Translated by Nick Nicholas5 Jan 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] they strike [someone] on the colon.1 Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "they always trample on the coward".2 Or they tread on. [The term comes] from those treading the olives.3 But some [derive it from] jumping on the belly.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κολετρῶσι· κατὰ τοῦ κόλου τύπτουσιν. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· τὸν δείλαιον κολετρῶσιν ἀεί. ἢ καταπατοῦσιν. ἀπὸ τῶν τὰς ἐλαίας καταπατούντων. οἱ δὲ τὸ ἐνάλλεσθαι τῇ κοιλίᾳ.
Betacode
*koletrw=si: kata\ tou= ko/lou tu/ptousin. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: to\n dei/laion koletrw=sin a)ei/. h)\ katapatou=sin. a)po\ tw=n ta\s e)lai/as katapatou/ntwn. oi( de\ to\ e)na/llesqai th=| koili/a|.
Notes (4)
- 1From the scholiast to Aristophanes Clouds 552 (cf. next note): "our forebears called 'striking the colon'
koletrw=sin ". ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Clouds 552 (on Hyperbolos: upsilon 245). ↩
- 3From the scholiast, and Hesychius kappa3328; Hesychius adds "[an activity] which is called
koletra=n ". In Photius kappa884 Theodoridis, "they tread, literally olives". This is probably the true origin of the lemma, with the scholiast's derivation from "colon" a folk etymology: -e- is implausible as a binding vowel. Frisk s.v. suspects an unattested *ko/letron or *kole/tra underlying the verb. ↩ - 4From the scholiast, and with slight rewording Hesychius: "they jump on the colon --- meaning the gut". Also in Photius loc.cit. ↩
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