Παίει
beats
Translated by Ronald Allen23 May 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Used] with an accusative.1 [Meaning he/she/it] strikes.2
Aristophanes [writes]: "beat, beat the sinful and wicked and horse-array-spooking and tax-collecting and wind-pipe and Charybdis."3
Aristophanes [writes]: "beat, beat the sinful and wicked and horse-array-spooking and tax-collecting and wind-pipe and Charybdis."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παίει· αἰτιατικῇ. τύπτει. Ἀριστοφάνης· παῖε, παῖε τὸν ἀλιτήριον καὶ πανοῦργον καὶ ταραξιππόστρατον καὶ τελώνην καὶ φάρυγγα καὶ Χάρυβδιν.
Betacode
*pai/ei: ai)tiatikh=|. tu/ptei. *)aristofa/nhs: pai=e, pai=e to\n a)lith/rion kai\ panou=rgon kai\ taracippo/straton kai\ telw/nhn kai\ fa/rugga kai\ *xa/rubdin.
Notes (3)
- The headword is the present indicative active, third person singular, of the verb
pai/w (I strike, I smite); cf. pi 880, pi 893, pi 894, and see LSJ s.v. It is evidently extracted from somewhere (not the quotation given, where it appears in the present imperative active, second person singular), but it is far too common for the source to be identified. - 1Adler cites Syntacticum Laurentianum for this grammatical note. ↩
- 2Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius pi34 Theodoridis. (Adler adds the Syntacticum Gudianum.) ↩
- 3A careless approximation of the Chorus Leader's colorful exhortation for an assault upon Paphlagon (= Kleon: kappa 1731) in Aristophanes, Knights 247-8 (web address 1). Here 'the sinful and' is added, 'windpipe' should be 'gutter' (
fa/ragga ), and the final element is 'Charybdis of plunder'. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- π874Παίεινto beatThus they call doing anything whatsoever intensely. Aristophanes in Acharnians [writes]: "and the young man quickly beats [the old man] with terse words."
- π880ΠαίωI beatThe [verb that means] I strike.
- π893Παῖσαιto play, to dance; to strike[Meaning] to play like a child. To beat.
- π894Παισθείςbeaten[Meaning one who was] struck.
Neighbouring entries
Revision history3 revisions · last 5 Jul 2021
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- modified primary note; augmented n.3; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen