Ὄνος στύπαξ
ass rope-man, donkey rope-man
Translated by David Whitehead14 Jan 2010Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
The stupax [sc. element is used] because [he was] a rope-seller.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὄνος στύπαξ· τὸ στύπαξ, ὅτι στυπιοπώλης.
Betacode
*)/onos stu/pac: to\ stu/pac, o(/ti stupiopw/lhs.
Notes
- The present headword phrase is a single word elsewhere: Comica adespota fr. 94 Kock, now 399 K.-A., and Hesychius s.v. (with a gloss addressing both elements of the word); LSJ s.v.
o)nostu/ppac . It is applied to the politician Eucrates; see sigma 1257; cf. scholia on Aristophanes, Knights 129 and 254.
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Revision history5 revisions · last 19 May 2016
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- Translated — David Whitehead