Πέπορδα
I have farted
Translated by William Hutton22 Sep 2011Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes [writes]: "for I am pleased and I am delighted and I have farted and I am laughing more than if I had shed my old skin." Meaning had done with. The metaphor [comes] from snakes that shed their old skin; for "I am pleased [...] having escaped the shield," that is the war, more than shedding my old skin.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πέπορδα· Ἀριστοφάνης· ἥδομαι γὰρ καὶ γέγηθα καὶ πέπορδα καὶ γελῶ μᾶλλον ἢ τὸ γῆρας ἐκδύς. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐάσας. ἡ μεταφορὰ ἀπὸ τῶν ὄφεων τῶν ἐκδυομένων τὸ γῆρας· ἥδομαι γὰρ ἐκφυγὼν τὴν ἀσπίδα, τουτέστι τὸν πόλεμον, μᾶλλον ἢ ἐκδὺς τὸ γῆρας.
Betacode
*pe/porda: *)aristofa/nhs: h(/domai ga\r kai\ ge/ghqa kai\ pe/porda kai\ gelw= ma=llon h)\ to\ gh=ras e)kdu/s. a)nti\ tou= e)a/sas. h( metafora\ a)po\ tw=n o)/fewn tw=n e)kduome/nwn to\ gh=ras: h(/domai ga\r e)kfugw\n th\n a)spi/da, toute/sti to\n po/lemon, ma=llon h)\ e)kdu\s to\ gh=ras.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Peace 335-6, with comments from the scholia. These comments are not intended to elucidate the headword ("I have farted") but other aspects of the quotation.
The headword is a perfect tense form ofpe/rdomai with o-grade of the root.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 23 Sep 2013
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- supplemented translation; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- expanded note, added keyword, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton