Περνᾶται

is on sale

Translated by Ross Scaife ✝25 Nov 2002Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 30 words
[Meaning he/she/it] is being sold.1
From which also [sc. comes the term] po/rnh ["prostitute"], [meaning] she who is selling sexual intercourse; or [so called] from having her mind hardened [pepwrwme/non].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Περνᾶται· πιπράσκεται. ἔνθεν καὶ πόρνη, ἡ πωλοῦσα τὴν μίξιν· ἢ παρὰ τὸ πεπωρωμένον ἔχειν τὸν νοῦν.

Betacode
*perna=tai: pipra/sketai. e)/nqen kai\ po/rnh, h( pwlou=sa th\n mi/cin: h)\ para\ to\ pepwrwme/non e)/xein to\n nou=n.

Notes (2)

  1. 1From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 176, where the headword occurs. See also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 18.292. ↩
  2. 2The first of these etymological speculations plausibly links the headword verb and the noun po/rnh; the second gives an alternative derivation for po/rnh from the verb pwro/w "petrify, harden." ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 28 Aug 2021
  1. tweaked note — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. modified headword and translation; added note and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. modified translation, added note and keyword — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — Ross Scaife ✝

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