Καθαγίσω

let me make hagios

Translated by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝27 Aug 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

8 words

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

  1. 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
  1. expanded note; another keyword — David Whitehead
  2. modified headword and translation; augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
  3. added note and keyword — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝

Cite this entry

“let me make hagios.” Suda On Line. Tr. Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝. 27 August 2003. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/29>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/kappa/29>.

Translation by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝ for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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