Προσπατταλεύσω
I will nail to
Translated by William Hutton7 Sep 2013Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] I will affix to. Aristophanes in Plutus [writes]: "I will nail [them] to [his forehead] just as to a wild olive."1 For farmers used to nail offerings, and limbs and skulls, to the wild olive and to other trees for the purpose of averting witchcraft, so that they not dry up.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προσπατταλεύσω· προσπήξω. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ· ὥσπερ κοτίνῳ προσπατταλεύσω. εἰώθασι γὰρ κοτίνῳ καὶ ἄλλοις δένδροις προσπατταλεύειν τὰ ἀναθήματα καὶ κωλὰς καὶ κρανία πρὸς ἀποτροπὴν βασκανίας οἱ γεωργοί, πρὸς τὸ μὴ ξηρανθῆναι αὐτά.
Betacode
*prospattaleu/sw: prosph/cw. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: w(/sper koti/nw| prospattaleu/sw. ei)w/qasi ga\r koti/nw| kai\ a)/llois de/ndrois prospattaleu/ein ta\ a)naqh/mata kai\ kwla\s kai\ krani/a pro\s a)potroph\n baskani/as oi( gewrgoi/, pro\s to\ mh\ chranqh=nai au)ta/.
Notes (1)
- The headword (first person singular, future, of the Attic compound verb
prospattaleu/w ) is extracted from the quotation given. - 1Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 943, with commentary from the scholia there. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 1 Dec 2021
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another note; more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton