Περιτράγῃ
would gnaw around
Translated by Catharine Roth11 Dec 2011Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] will strike around, would eat around. Meaning will steal.1 Aristophanes [writes]: "[...] and in the crowd to take extreme care, that no one would gnaw around your golden things without your noticing."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιτράγῃ· περικόψει, περιφάγῃ. ἀντὶ τοῦ κλέψει. Ἀριστοφάνης· κἀν τὤχλῳ φυλάττεσθαι σφόδρα, μή τις λαθών σου περιτράγῃ τὰ χρυσία.
Betacode
*peritra/gh|: periko/yei, perifa/gh|. a)nti\ tou= kle/yei. *)aristofa/nhs: ka)n tw)/xlw| fula/ttesqai sfo/dra, mh/ tis laqw/n sou peritra/gh| ta\ xrusi/a.
Notes (2)
- 1The headword (extracted from the quotation given) is third person singular, aorist subjunctive, of
peritrw/gw , initially glossed with a future indicative (s.v.l.) and an aorist subjunctive. ↩ - 2Dikaiopolis' wife to their daughter in Aristophanes, Acharnians 257-8 (web address 1), with scholion. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 21 Jun 2016
- my typo — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented n.2; more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth