Πίτυλος
sweep, torrent, onslaught, attack
Translated by Catharine Roth5 Sep 2012Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] noise-maker, fantasist.1
Also [sc. attested is the related aorist participle]pituleu/sas ["plying the oar"] in Aristophanes.2
Also [sc. attested is]pituli/zw ["I dart about"], a[nother] verb.
"As it is to see a race of fish darting about in tanks."3
Also [sc. attested is the related aorist participle]
Also [sc. attested is]
"As it is to see a race of fish darting about in tanks."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πίτυλος· κτυπητής, φαντασιοσκόπος. καὶ Πιτυλεύσας παρ' Ἀριστοφάνει. καὶ Πιτυλίζω, ῥῆμα. οἷον ἔστιν ἰχθύων γένεσιν ἰδεῖν ἐν κολύμβοις πιτυλίζουσαν.
Betacode
*pi/tulos: ktuphth/s, fantasiosko/pos. kai\ *pituleu/sas par' *)aristofa/nei. kai\ *pituli/zw, r(h=ma. oi(=on e)/stin i)xqu/wn ge/nesin i)dei=n e)n kolu/mbois pituli/zousan.
Notes (3)
- 1Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius pi903 Theodoridis. The glossing is hard to reconcile with the attested usage of the headword (a mainly tragedic noun: see LSJ s.v.), particularly as regards the second gloss. Theodoridis notes nineteenth-century opinion that it should be
fantasioko/pos rather thanfantasiosko/pos (cf. phi 86), but that scarcely eliminates the problem. Could the headword be a proper name? ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Wasps 678: web address 1. ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable. This verb is otherwise attested only in medical writers, where it means to swing the arms (as a form of exercise); see LSJ s.v. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 8 Jan 2023
- cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- expanded n.1; tweaks — David Whitehead
- another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth