Ληκώμεθα
[whenever] we are shagged
Translated by David Whitehead25 Mar 2009Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning whenever] we are screwed. Aristophanes [writes]: "especially whenever we are shagged by some man the whole night long".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ληκώμεθα· κινώμεθα. Ἀριστοφάνης· μάλισθ' ὅταν ὑπό του ληκώμεθα τὴν νύχθ' ὅλην.
Betacode
*lhkw/meqa: kinw/meqa. *)aristofa/nhs: ma/lisq' o(/tan u(po/ tou lhkw/meqa th\n nu/xq' o(/lhn.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 493-4 (where the syntax requires this subjunctive: web address 1), with the gloss of the scholia there. For the phraseology cf. Pherecrates fr.177 Kock (253 K.-A.), at Photius lambda254 Theodoridis.
Both the headword verb itself and the glossing verb (kappa 1645) are verbs describing violent motion; in a sexual context they are classified by Henderson 35 (expanded 151-153) as "metaphorical words whose originally nonsexual meanings were still barely perceptible to the ear but which had come to be used as primary obscenities".
References
J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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