Νάρκη
numbness
Translated by David Whitehead11 Aug 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] irritation of the skin.1
Aristophanes [writes]: "alas, what has happened to me? [It's] just as if a numbness is creeping over my hand, and I can't hold my sword".2
Here is combined the idea of the narke fish and the experience one gets from it.3
Aristophanes [writes]: "alas, what has happened to me? [It's] just as if a numbness is creeping over my hand, and I can't hold my sword".2
Here is combined the idea of the narke fish and the experience one gets from it.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νάρκη· μυρμηκίασις. Ἀριστοφάνης· οἴμοι, τί πέπονθα; ὥσπερ νάρκη μου κατὰ τῆς χειρὸς καταχεῖται, καὶ τὸ ξίφος οὐ δύναμαι κατέχειν. συντελεῖ ἐνταῦθα καὶ ἡ ἐνθύμησις τοῦ ἰχθυδίου τῆς νάρκης, καὶ τὸ κατ' αὐτὴν πάθος.
Betacode
*na/rkh: murmhki/asis. *)aristofa/nhs: oi)/moi, ti/ pe/ponqa; w(/sper na/rkh mou kata\ th=s xeiro\s kataxei=tai, kai\ to\ ci/fos ou) du/namai kate/xein. suntelei= e)ntau=qa kai\ h( e)nqu/mhsis tou= i)xqudi/ou th=s na/rkhs, kai\ to\ kat' au)th\n pa/qos.
Notes (3)
- 1Same or similar glossing in other lexica: see the references at Photius nu29 Theodoridis. ↩
- 2An approximation of Aristophanes, Wasps 713-714 (web address 1); see already at mu 109. ↩
- 3The 'narke fish' is the electric ray. For this material as a whole cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.314A-E (7.95 Kaibel). ↩
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- Revised — David Whitehead
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- Translated — David Whitehead