Κοικύλλεις

you are leering

Translated by William Hutton20 May 2008Vetting: high3 revisions

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[Meaning] you are looking around, or you are devising evil. "You there, what are you stirring up, or why do you keep on leering."¹ The 'keep on' is superfluous, in Attic fashion.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κοικύλλεις· περιβλέπεις, ἢ κακοτεχνεῖς. τί αὖ σὺ κυρκανᾷς, ἢ τί κοικύλλεις ἔχων; περιττὸν τὸ ἔχων Ἀττικῶς.

Betacode

*koiku/lleis: perible/peis, h)\ kakotexnei=s. ti/ au)= su\ kurkana=|s, h)\ ti/ koiku/lleis e)/xwn; peritto\n to\ e)/xwn *)attikw=s.

Notes (1)

cf. Hesychius kappa3232; Photius, Lexicon kappa860 Theodoridis.
1Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 852 (web address 1), with scholion; the only attestation of any form of this verb outside lexica and scholia. ↩

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κ2771Κυρκανᾶνto stir up[Meaning] to disturb, to set in motion. "To me it seems right to stir up some disaster for him somehow or other."

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κ2532Κοίαςquoits κ2533Κοιαίστωρquaestor κ2534Κοικύλλειςyou are leering κ2535Κοῖλαbags κ2536Κοιλάδα κλαυθμῶνοςvalley of lamentation

Revision history3 revisions · last 2 May 2016

2 May 2016Revised — David Whitehead
19 Mar 2013tweaking — David Whitehead
20 May 2008another keyword — David Whitehead
20 May 2008Translated — William Hutton

Translation

Greek original · Adler’s text

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