Περίθου
place around
Translated by William Hutton4 Oct 2011Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
What for us [it is] customary to say [as] e)pi/qou ["place upon"]. Aristophanes [writes]: "now place this around you first, before speaking."1 ["This"] meaning a garland; for it was customary for those speaking to garland themselves first.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περίθου· ὅπερ ἡμῖν σύνηθες ἐπίθου λέγειν. Ἀριστοφάνης· περίθου νῦν τόνδε πρότερον, πρὶν λέγειν. ἀντὶ τοῦ στέφανον· ἔθος γὰρ ἦν τοῖς λέγουσι στεφανοῦσθαι πρῶτον.
Betacode
*peri/qou: o(/per h(mi=n su/nhqes e)pi/qou le/gein. *)aristofa/nhs: peri/qou nu=n to/nde pro/teron, pri\n le/gein. a)nti\ tou= ste/fanon: e)/qos ga\r h)=n toi=s le/gousi stefanou=sqai prw=ton.
Notes (1)
- The headword (extracted from the quotation given) is the aorist middle imperative, second person singular, of
periti/qhmi ; cf. pi 1323. - 1Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazousae 380, with comments from the scholia. ↩
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Revision history2 revisions · last 25 Sep 2013
- more keywords — David Whitehead
- another note and keyword; tweaks — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton