Πατάγου χυτρίου
of a cooking-pot clatter
Translated by Catharine Roth18 Apr 2011Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Meaning [of a clatter] of pottery. From a part the whole [sc. category is designated].1 The pottery is being shattered in the springs. For cooking-pots they do not dip.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πατάγου χυτρίου· ἀντὶ τοῦ κεραμέου. ἐκ μέρους τὸ πᾶν. συντρίβεται δὲ τὰ κεράμια παρὰ ταῖς κρήναις. οὐ γὰρ χύτρας βάπτουσιν.
Betacode
*pata/gou xutri/ou: a)nti\ tou= kerame/ou. e)k me/rous to\ pa=n. suntri/betai de\ ta\ kera/mia para\ tai=s krh/nais. ou) ga\r xu/tras ba/ptousin.
Notes (1)
- From a scholion on Aristophanes, Lysistrata 329, where the present headword phrase -- in the genitive -- occurs (but with the adjective spelled
xutrei/ou : web address 1).
Onxu/trai as a subclass of pottery, cf. chi 616. - 1i.e. the idiom of pars pro toto. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- π769Πατάγημαrattle, noiseMeaning talkative, and rascally. Menander [writes]: "you have come like a rattle/noise."
- π770Πάταγοςclatter[Meaning] noise. Agathias [writes]: "wails of the rural folk were heard and lowing of cattle being driven away and a clatter of the woods being felled."
- π771Πάταγοςclatter, clash, rumble[Meaning a] sound, crash. "Not fire, not the clash of spears or swords." And Aelian [writes]: "suddenly a clatter of the doors is heard."
- π772Παταγοῦσιthey clatter, they crash, they beat[Meaning] they make a noise. "The barbarians clapping to the sound of a kind of bell and a drum over the cargo [...]." And elsewhere: "but he escapes notice, as his breath beats strongly."
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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Sep 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; another keyword; tweaks — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth