Περιαλουργός
extremely sea-worked
Translated by William Hutton25 Sep 2011Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes [speaking] about Lysistratos [uses this word]. "Extremely sea-worked with evils, always going cold and hungry more than 39 days each month."1 That is, one dyed in evils, or one deep in evils. The word is transferred from the dying of sea-dyed purple, because the shellfish is retrieved from the deep. The purple is 'sea-work'.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιαλουργός· Ἀριστοφάνης περὶ Λυσιστράτου. περιαλουργὸς κακοῖς, ῥιγῶν τε καὶ πεινῶν ἀεὶ πλεῖν ἢ λθʹ ἡμέρας τοῦ μηνὸς ἑκάστου. τουτέστιν ὁ κακοῖς βεβαμμένος· ἢ ὁ βαθὺς τοῖς κακοῖς. μετενήνεκται δὲ ἡ λέξις ἀπὸ τῆς βαφῆς τῆς πορφύρας τῆς θαλασσοβαφοῦς, ὅτι ἐκ βάθους τὸ ὄστρεον εὑρίσκεται. ἁλουργὶς δὲ ἡ πορφύρα.
Betacode
*perialourgo/s: *)aristofa/nhs peri\ *lusistra/tou. perialourgo\s kakoi=s, r(igw=n te kai\ peinw=n a)ei\ plei=n h)\ lq# h(me/ras tou= mhno\s e(ka/stou. toute/stin o( kakoi=s bebamme/nos: h)\ o( baqu\s toi=s kakoi=s. metenh/nektai de\ h( le/cis a)po\ th=s bafh=s th=s porfu/ras th=s qalassobafou=s, o(/ti e)k ba/qous to\ o)/streon eu(ri/sketai. a(lourgi\s de\ h( porfu/ra.
Notes (1)
- 1Aristophanes, Acharnians 856-59 (web address 1), with comments from the scholia. (A month with 39 days would be an absurdity, even in comedy: the original says 30.) ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 24 Sep 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton