Περιεζώσατο
girded oneself around
Translated by William Hutton2 Oct 2011Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Meaning [he/she/it] put around. "Being in need of a guardian and being naked, [the people] girded itself with this man for a time." For naked people desire to obtain even a loincloth.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιεζώσατο· ἀντὶ τοῦ περιεβάλετο. ἀπορῶν ἐπιτρόπου γυμνὸς ὢν τοῦτον τέως περιεζώσατο. οἱ γὰρ γυμνοὶ ἐπιθυμοῦσι κἂν περιζώματος τυχεῖν.
Betacode
*periezw/sato: a)nti\ tou= perieba/leto. a)porw=n e)pitro/pou gumno\s w)\n tou=ton te/ws periezw/sato. oi( ga\r gumnoi\ e)piqumou=si ka)\n perizw/matos tuxei=n.
Notes (1)
- The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is aorist indicative middle, third person singular, of
perizw/nnumi . - 1Aristophanes, Peace 686-7 (abridged), with comments from the scholia. The individual in question is Hyperbolos (upsilon 245). For the noun
peri/zwma , see pi 1141. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 25 Jul 2021
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton