Πάσῃ τέχνῃ
by all means, by every craft
Translated by David Whitehead28 Feb 2004Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] in any way.1 Aristophanes in Lysistrata [writes]: "if you don't have the time, come by every craft towards evening and fit in the pin for her".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πάσῃ τέχνῃ· ἐκ παντὸς τρόπου. Ἀριστοφάνης Λυσιστράτῃ· οὐδ' ἢν σχολάσῃς, πάσῃ τέχνῃ πρὸς ἑσπέραν ἐλθών, ἐκείνῃ τὴν βάλανον ἐνάρμοσον.
Betacode
*pa/sh| te/xnh|: e)k panto\s tro/pou. *)aristofa/nhs *lusistra/th|: ou)d' h)\n sxola/sh|s, pa/sh| te/xnh| pro\s e(spe/ran e)lqw/n, e)kei/nh| th\n ba/lanon e)na/rmoson.
Notes (1)
- Aristophanes, Lysistrata 412-413 (which does not have the Suda's opening negative
ou)d' , a mistake forsu\ d' : web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. Also in Photius pi466 Theodoridis.
There is double entendre here: in line 410 the balanos was the pin of a necklace, but when the goldsmith makes his house-call he will deploy his balanos = penis (cf. beta 66). - 1cf. generally pi 751. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 17 Sep 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead