Κυρσάνιε
whippersnapper
Translated by William Hutton6 Mar 2008Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] young man, adolescent. Or very cheap person. For a kurso/s [is] a cheap vegetable.1 The Lakonians use the term 'whippersnappers' for youths and for cheap people.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κυρσάνιε· νεανία, ἔφηβε. ἢ εὐτελέστατε. κυρσὸς γὰρ εὐτελὲς λάχανον. Κυρσανίους δὲ καλοῦσιν οἱ Λάκωνες τὰ μειράκια καὶ τοὺς εὐτελεῖς ἀνθρώπους.
Betacode
*kursa/nie: neani/a, e)/fhbe. h)\ eu)tele/state. kurso\s ga\r eu)tele\s la/xanon. *kursani/ous de\ kalou=sin oi( *la/kwnes ta\ meira/kia kai\ tou\s eu)telei=s a)nqrw/pous.
Notes (1)
- The headword -- which is in the vocative case, as are the three glosses -- appears at Aristophanes, Lysistrata 983 (web address 1), and much of the material in the entry is found in the scholia thereto. Compare also Lysistrata 1247 (web address 2), with scholia; Photius, Lexicon kappa1236 and kappa1260 Theodoridis; Hesychius kappa4706 (and kappa4705), kappa4710; Photius s.v.
skurqa/nia , alongside Hesychius sigma1181, sigma1182 and sigma1183. - 1Attested as such only here and in the Lysistrata 983 scholia. LSJ has the word but glosses it as gibberosus ('hunch-backed'). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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