Παλεῦσαι
to decoy, to entrap to wrestle, to wrestle
Translated by William Hutton13 Mar 2011Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to deceive, to lead on.1
And [there is] a proverb: "[he] wrestles the fox well."2
Also [sc. attested is the related noun]paleu/tria ["wrestler"], [meaning] a decoy pigeon.3 Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "and he compels [sc. the pigeons] to wrestle [sc. act as decoy] in a net." For they are accustomed to blind some of the birds and to fix them in a net.4
And [there is] a proverb: "[he] wrestles the fox well."2
Also [sc. attested is the related noun]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παλεῦσαι· ἐξαπατῆσαι, ὑπαγαγέσθαι. καὶ παροιμία· Παλεύει καλῶς τὴν ἀλώπεκα. καὶ Παλεύτρια, περιστερὰ πλάνος. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισι· κἀπαναγκάζει παλεύειν ἐν δικτύῳ. εἰώθασι γὰρ ἐκτυφλοῦν τινα τῶν ὀρνέων καὶ ἱστᾶν ἐν δικτύῳ.
Betacode
*paleu=sai: e)capath=sai, u(pagage/sqai. kai\ paroimi/a: *paleu/ei kalw=s th\n a)lw/peka. kai\ *paleu/tria, peristera\ pla/nos. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi: ka)panagka/zei paleu/ein e)n diktu/w|. ei)w/qasi ga\r e)ktuflou=n tina tw=n o)rne/wn kai\ i(sta=n e)n diktu/w|.
Notes (4)
- The headword, evidently extracted from somewhere, is aorist active infinitive of
paleu/w . LSJ s.v. registers both the primary (wrestle) and the applied (decoy, entrap) senses of it. - 1Eudemus s.v.
paleu=sai (= Photius, Lexicon pi64 Theodoridis, with other references there), who also provides the first sentence after the quoted proverb (see n. 3). ↩ - 2Not in the paroemiographers. ↩
- 3This is also in Eudemus (see n. 1) with different punctuation. ↩
- 4A paraphrase of Aristophanes, Birds 1083 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. eta 290, phi 381. Aristophanes has called the birds in question just "pigeons" (line 1082:
ta\s peristera/s ); the commentator may be taking the opportunity to explain why some pigeons are called "wrestlers". ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 21 May 2016
- coding — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1; tweaking — David Whitehead
- typo, tweaks to headword and translation — William Hutton
- tweaked headword and tr; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton