Καπρῶντας
boaring, playing the boar
Translated by David Whitehead11 Dec 2007Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning men] eager for copulation.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Καπρῶντας· ὁρμητικῶς ἔχοντας πρὸς συνουσίαν.
Betacode
*kaprw=ntas: o(rmhtikw=s e)/xontas pro\s sunousi/an.
Notes
- Also in Photius (Lexicon kappa170), and paralleled elsewhere. The headword, a present participle in the masculine accusative plural (evidently quoted from somewhere), comes from the verb
kapra/w ; it is used literally of sows in Aristotle, but when used figuratively of women -- as in e.g. Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 1024 (web address 1) -- implies a degree of lust appropriate to a sow wanting a boar. Here, however, it seems to be describing men in an analogous way.