Μυζεῖ
sucks
Translated by Catharine Roth5 Aug 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μυζεῖ καὶ Μύζει· θηλάζει, λείχει. Ξενοφῶν· ἔδει δέ, εἴ τις διψῴη, λαβόντα εἰς τὸ στόμα μυζεῖν τοὺς καλάμους· καὶ πάνυ ἄκρατος ἦν ὁ οἶνος, μή τις ὕδωρ ἐπιχέοι.
Betacode
*muzei= kai\ *mu/zei: qhla/zei, lei/xei. *cenofw=n: e)/dei de/, ei)/ tis diyw/|h, labo/nta ei)s to\ sto/ma muzei=n tou\s kala/mous: kai\ pa/nu a)/kratos h)=n o( oi)=nos, mh/ tis u(/dwr e)pixe/oi.
Notes (2)
- 1The verb is attested as
mu/zw and also as a contract verb,muza/w or (as would be required here)muze/w ; cf. mu 1384. In the present context, nevertheless, other lexica (references at Photius mu574 Theodoridis) have only themu/zei version of this headword, evidently quoted from somewhere. ↩ - 2Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.27 (web address 1), quoted already at alpha 964. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- α964ἌκρατοςunmixedXenophon [writes]: "the wine was entirely unmixed, unless someone poured water in." And elsewhere: "the woman skilled at sipping three times a cup of unmixed wine."
- μ1384Μυζῶντεςsucking[Meaning they who are] squeezing out.
- οι128Οἰνοπίπαςwine-gapers[Meaning] women on the lookout for wine; just as Homer [has] virgin-gaper [parqenopi=pa], Aristophanes says: "where has he not slandered [us], wherever in short there is spectacle and tragedy and choruses, calling [us]…
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Revision history4 revisions · last 27 Sep 2020
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- tweak — Catharine Roth
- expanded n.1; tweaking — David Whitehead
- more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth