Παρείρπυσεν

slithered up

Translated by Ronald Allen24 Aug 2007Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 29 words
[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-eyed1 slithered up [sc. to speak]."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παρείρπυσεν· εἰσῆλθεν. ὡς ἐπὶ ὄφεως δὲ εἶπεν, ἐπειδὴ τυφλὸς ἦν ὁ γλάμων. πρῶτος Νεοκλείδης ὁ γλάμων παρείρπυσεν.

Betacode
*parei/rpusen: ei)sh=lqen. w(s e)pi\ o)/fews de\ ei)=pen, e)peidh\ tuflo\s h)=n o( gla/mwn. prw=tos *neoklei/dhs o( gla/mwn parei/rpusen.

Notes (2)

  1. The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is the aorist indicative active, third person singular, of the verb pare/rpw. Cf. pi 565.
  2. 1For this man, politically active in the early C4 BCE, cf. nu 193. On the attitude of the Athenian public to the disabled see generally Garland [below] 31-32. ↩
  3. 2Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae [Assemblywomen] 398 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. gamma 277. ↩

References


Robert Garland, The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995

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π597Παρειπώνhaving persuaded by indirect meansπ598Παρείρανταhaving inserted, having threaded inπ599Παρείρπυσενslithered upπ600Παρείςletting goπ601Παρείςletting go
Revision history6 revisions · last 12 Jun 2021
  1. cross-reference — Catharine Roth
  2. cosmeticules — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. tweaks — David Whitehead
  5. modified n.1; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. tweaks and cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — Ronald Allen

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