Λεσβίσαι
to lesbise
Translated by George Gazis27 May 2008Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to defile the mouth. For men of Lesbos1 used to be slandered.2
On shamefulness. Aristophanes [writes]: "[she is] now about to lesbise the fellow-drinkers."3
On shamefulness. Aristophanes [writes]: "[she is] now about to lesbise the fellow-drinkers."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λεσβίσαι· μολῦναι τὸ στόμα. Λέσβιοι γὰρ διεβάλλοντο. ἐπὶ αἰσχρότητι. Ἀριστοφάνης· μέλλουσαν ἤδη λεσβιεῖν τοὺς ξυμπότας.
Betacode
*lesbi/sai: molu=nai to\ sto/ma. *le/sbioi ga\r dieba/llonto. e)pi\ ai)sxro/thti. *)aristofa/nhs: me/llousan h)/dh lesbiei=n tou\s cumpo/tas.
Notes (3)
- The headword, an aorist active infinitive, is perhaps quoted from somewhere (though it may simply have been generated in comment on the Aristophanes passage below).
- 1Here as in lambda 304 and lambda 305 the ambiguous term 'Lesbians' is best avoided. ↩
- 2Same or similar material elsewhere: see the references at Photius lambda207 Theodoridis. ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Wasps 1346, web address 1 (Philokleon referring to a girl piper), with scholion. ↩
References
J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 183-4 #381 ('virtually the vox propria for fellatio in the comic poets')
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 5 May 2022
- added a link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- supplemented tr and n.3 — David Whitehead
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- supplied headword, notes, bibliography; revised tr; more keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — George Gazis