Νεώρια
dockyards
Translated by Nick Nicholas5 Sep 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the anchorage of [= for] the ships.
"[He] might burn down the dockyard."1 "A Boeotian man, attaching it to a beetle, might send it into the dockyard alight."2 Ati/fh ["beetle"], in the feminine, [is] a small beetle-like creature also [known as] the cockroach.3
They think that Boeotians would use it to set fire to what they could, attaching to it a lit torch or something like that. This also used to be done through foxes and turtles.4
But ati=fos [is] a forest.5 [sc. The word derives] from u(potu/fw "burn with a smouldering fire", as they say, and hiding what is it within it, with the usual change of u to i . 6 *ti/fh is also the name of a fine seed.7
"[He] might burn down the dockyard."1 "A Boeotian man, attaching it to a beetle, might send it into the dockyard alight."2 A
They think that Boeotians would use it to set fire to what they could, attaching to it a lit torch or something like that. This also used to be done through foxes and turtles.4
But a
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νεώρια· ὁ ναύσταθμος τῶν νεῶν. ἐμπρήσαιεν ἂν τὸ νεώριον. ἐνθεὶς ἂν ἐς τίφην ἀνὴρ Βοιώτιος, ἅψας ἂν ἐσπέμψειεν ἐς τὸ νεώριον. τίφη μὲν θηλυκῶς ἡ καὶ σίλφη, ζωΰφιον κανθαρῶδες. ᾧ δοκοῦσι Βοιωτοὶ ἐμπηγνύντες δᾷδα ἡμμένην ἤ τι τοιοῦτον ἐμπυρίζειν ὃ δύνανται. τοῦτο δὲ καὶ δι' ἀλωπέκων καὶ χελωνῶν ἐγένετο. Τῖφος δέ γε τὸ δάσος. παρὰ τὸ ὑποτύφειν, φασί, καὶ κρύπτειν τὰ ἔσω αὐτοῦ, τροπῇ συνήθει τοῦ υ εἰς ι. ἡ δὲ τίφη καὶ σπερματίου λεπτοῦ ἐστιν ὄνομα.
Betacode
*new/ria: o( nau/staqmos tw=n new=n. e)mprh/saien a)\n to\ new/rion. e)nqei\s a)\n e)s ti/fhn a)nh\r *boiw/tios, a(/yas a)\n e)spe/myeien e)s to\ new/rion. ti/fh me\n qhlukw=s h( kai\ si/lfh, zwu/+fion kanqarw=des. w(=| dokou=si *boiwtoi\ e)mphgnu/ntes da=|da h(mme/nhn h)/ ti toiou=ton e)mpuri/zein o(\ du/nantai. tou=to de\ kai\ di' a)lwpe/kwn kai\ xelwnw=n e)ge/neto. *ti=fos de/ ge to\ da/sos. para\ to\ u(potu/fein, fasi/, kai\ kru/ptein ta\ e)/sw au)tou=, troph=| sunh/qei tou= u ei)s i. h( de\ ti/fh kai\ spermati/ou leptou= e)stin o)/noma.
Notes (7)
- See also nu 235.
- 1Aristophanes, Acharnians 919 (web address 1). Our accepted text has
e)mprh/seien ; either optative form is acceptable in classical Greek. ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Acharnians 920-921. ↩
- 3Definition (also at theta 515 and tau 698) from the scholia there. ↩
- 4Interpolations in the Suda, trying to make literal-minded sense of Aristophanes' joke. ↩
- 5In fact, it is a marsh or standing water, and glossed more correctly in tau 699: a poetic word occurring in Theocritus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Lycophron. ↩
- 6The Etymologicum Magnum and ps.-Zonaras have "from
tu/fesqai , namely to smoulder, and rot in forested places." The 'usual change' is fiction. ↩ - 7LSJ s.v.
ti/fh I: "one-grained wheat, einkorn, Triticum monococcum". ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 25 Oct 2020
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- coding — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- supplemented tr; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, keyword, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Nick Nicholas