Πεφυσιγγωμένοι
garlic-excited
Translated by Philip Forness30 Mar 2012Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning they who are] puffed up [by it]. The outside peel of garlic-bulbs is [called]1 a fu/sigc ; the fusi/ggh . So he jested about this too at the expense of the Megarians, because they have many garlic-bulbs.2 Or [meaning] filled-up, from a metaphor of the paunches or bladders [fu=sai ] that receive the wind. Or [meaning] enflamed, swollen. Aristophanes [writes]: "and then the Megarians, garlic-excited with vexations, stole in return [two whores]3 of Aspasia."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πεφυσιγγωμένοι· πεφυσημένοι. φύσιγξ δὲ τὸ ἐκτὸς λέπισμα τῶν σκορόδων· ἡ φυσίγγη. ἔπαιξεν οὖν καὶ τοῦτο εἰς Μεγαρέας, ὅτι πολλὰ σκόροδα ἔχουσιν. ἢ πεπλησμένοι, ἀπὸ μεταφορᾶς τῶν τὸν ἄνεμον δεχομένων ἀσκῶν ἢ φυσῶν. ἢ ἐκκεκαυμένοι, οἰδοῦντες. Ἀριστοφάνης· κᾆθ' οἱ Μεγαρεῖς ὀδύναις πεφυσιγγωμένοι, ἀντεξέκλεψαν Ἀσπασίας.
Betacode
*pefusiggwme/noi: pefushme/noi. fu/sigc de\ to\ e)kto\s le/pisma tw=n skoro/dwn: h( fusi/ggh. e)/paicen ou)=n kai\ tou=to ei)s *megare/as, o(/ti polla\ sko/roda e)/xousin. h)\ peplhsme/noi, a)po\ metafora=s tw=n to\n a)/nemon dexome/nwn a)skw=n h)\ fusw=n. h)\ e)kkekaume/noi, oi)dou=ntes. *)aristofa/nhs: ka)=|q' oi( *megarei=s o)du/nais pefusiggwme/noi, a)ntece/kleyan *)aspasi/as.
Notes (3)
- The headword, extracted from the quotation eventually given, is the perfect participle, masculine nominative plural, of the verb
fusiggo/omai . Aristophanes, Acharnians 526–527, with scholion on 526; cf. phi 860, and see Dübner (below) 16. - 1The scholion has
le/getai , omitted by the lexicographer. ↩ - 2Line 521 has already mentioned the association between the Megarians and garlic bulbs. ↩
- 3The line ends
po/rna du/o , omitted here. For Aspasia see generally alpha 4202. ↩
References
Friedrich Dübner. Scholia Graeca in Aristophanem: cum prolegomenis grammaticorum. Paris, 1855
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Revision history3 revisions · last 1 Sep 2021
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr and notes; x-refs; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Philip Forness