Περίδου
make a wager
Translated by William Hutton30 Sep 2011Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] place around. Aristophanes [writes]: "come here you, make a wager and quickly become a man."1 And elsewhere: "I want to make a wager on the head." Meaning to make a contract on the head.2 And again: "if you like, make a wager with me for thyme-seasoned salts." If you like, he is saying, "let us form contracts for thyme-seasoned salts, that is, [ones] crushed up with thyme.3 And elsewhere: "giving me thyme salts and onions."4 But Homer says "make a wager with me" also.5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περίδου· περίθες. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἴθι σὺ περίδου καὶ ταχέως ἀνὴρ γενοῦ. καὶ αὖθις· ἐθέλω περὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς περιδόσθαι. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς συνθήκην θεῖναι. καὶ αὖθις· εἰ βούλει, περίδου μοι περὶ θυμητίδων ἁλῶν. εἰ βούλει, φησί, ποιησώμεθα συνθήκας περὶ θυμητίδων ἁλῶν, οἷον μετὰ θύμου τετριμμένων. καὶ ἑτέρωθι· ἅλας θυμίτας δοὺς ἐμοὶ καὶ κρόμυα. τὸ δὲ περίδου μοι καὶ Ὅμηρός φησι.
Betacode
*peri/dou: peri/qes. *)aristofa/nhs: i)/qi su\ peri/dou kai\ taxe/ws a)nh\r genou=. kai\ au)=qis: e)qe/lw peri\ th=s kefalh=s perido/sqai. a)nti\ tou= e)pi\ th=s kefalh=s sunqh/khn qei=nai. kai\ au)=qis: ei) bou/lei, peri/dou moi peri\ qumhti/dwn a(lw=n. ei) bou/lei, fhsi/, poihsw/meqa sunqh/kas peri\ qumhti/dwn a(lw=n, oi(=on meta\ qu/mou tetrimme/nwn. kai\ e(te/rwqi: a(/las qumi/tas dou\s e)moi\ kai\ kro/mua. to\ de\ peri/dou moi kai\ *(/omhro/s fhsi.
Notes (5)
- A string of quotations from Aristophanes, with comments from the scholia.
In the first gloss and the accompanying quotation (see n. 1) there is confusion between the given headwordperi/dou , aorist middle imperative ofperidi/domai ("place a wager"), and the differently-accentedperidou= , present middle imperative ofperide/w ('tie around'). See also pi 1102, pi 1103. - 1Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae [Assemblywomen] 121, with
peri/dou ("make a wager") in place ofperidou= ("get [a beard] tied around you"). ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Knights 791, which contains not the headword, but the aorist middle infinitive of the same verb. ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Acharnians 772, paraphrased from the Doric dialect of the Megarian character; cf. theta 566. ↩
- 4An approximation of Aristophanes, Acharnians 1099, with
dou=s ("giving") in place ofoi)=se ("bring"). This quotation has nothing to do with the headword but instead seems to have been brought to mind by the previous quotation. ↩ - 5Not as such, but Homer does use other forms of the verb at Iliad 23.485 (noted by Adler, cf. pi 1103) and Odyssey 23.78. ↩
Linked from2 entries
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- π1102ΠερίδουwagerThat is, make a compact. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "wager now with me whether the tetrameter isn't a half-peck."
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Revision history4 revisions · last 23 Jul 2021
- cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- another x-ref; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton