Παρερπύσασα

having crept up secretly

Translated by Ronald Allen12 Dec 2007Vetting: high4 revisions

1 note · 21 words

Having quietly entered. "[I would like,] having crept up secretly inside before my husband sees me, [to put back his cloak...]."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παρερπύσασα· ἠρέμα εἰσελθοῦσα. εἴσω παρερπύσασα, πρὶν τὸν ἄνδρα με ἰδεῖν.

Betacode

*parerpu/sasa: h)re/ma ei)selqou=sa. ei)/sw parerpu/sasa, pri\n to\n a)/ndra me i)dei=n.

Notes (1)

The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is the aorist active participle, nominative (and vocative) feminine singular, of the verb pare/rpw. Cf. pi 599. The gloss is the participle of the same form for the more commonplace verb ei)se/rxomai.
1Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae [Assemblywomen] 511-512 (web address 1), with scholion. Praxagora and the other women have been disguised as men at an assembly-meeting. ↩

External resources

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Linked from1 entry

π599Παρείρπυσενslithered up[Meaning he/she/it] entered into. He said [this] as if in reference to a snake, since the bleary-eyed man was purblind. "First, Neokleides the bleary-eyed slithered up [sc. to speak]."

Neighbouring entries

π563Παρέπτηflew alongside π564Παρέργωςaccidentally, incidentally π565Παρερπύσασαhaving crept up secretly π566Παρέρχεταιpasses by π567Πάρεςallow, yield

Revision history4 revisions · last 12 Jun 2021

12 Jun 2021cross-reference — Catharine Roth
9 Jun 2021cosmeticules — Catharine Roth
31 Aug 2011tweaks — David Whitehead
12 Dec 2007cosmetics — David Whitehead
12 Dec 2007Translated — Ronald Allen