Καθαγίσω
let me make hagios
Translated by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝27 Aug 2003Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] let me burn, let me make holy.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Καθαγίσω· καύσω, καθιερώσω.
Betacode
*kaqagi/sw: kau/sw, kaqierw/sw.
Notes
- Same or similar entry in other lexica. From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 238, where the headword (an aorist subjunctive occurs) occurs: Lysistrata herself says 'let me make this [goblet] hagios'.
For the concept of hagios, suggesting 'an attitude and feeling of looking upward in awe and veneration', see generally Walter Burkert, Greek Religion (Oxford [Blackwell] 1985) 270-1. The scholiast's glosses draw attention to the fact that a regular way of making an offering hagios was to burn it up (holocaust); here the joke comes with Lysistrata offering to drain it dry.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Jan 2013
- expanded note; another keyword — David Whitehead
- modified headword and translation; augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
- added note and keyword — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝