Παιπάλη
flour
Translated by William Hutton4 Sep 2011Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] meal [made] from barleycorns or from millet.1
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "you will become a castanet, meal."2 Meaning rough, difficult to grasp; since we callpai/pala ["steeps"] places that are difficult of access.
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "you will become a castanet, meal."2 Meaning rough, difficult to grasp; since we call
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παιπάλη· ἄλευρον ἀπὸ κριθῶν ἢ ἀπὸ κέγχρου. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· γενήσῃ κρόταλον, παιπάλη. ἀντὶ τοῦ τραχύς, δυσκατάληπτος· ἐπεὶ παίπαλα καλοῦμεν τὰ τῶν χωρίων δύσβατα.
Betacode
*paipa/lh: a)/leuron a)po\ kriqw=n h)\ a)po\ ke/gxrou. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: genh/sh| kro/talon, paipa/lh. a)nti\ tou= traxu/s, duskata/lhptos: e)pei\ pai/pala kalou=men ta\ tw=n xwri/wn du/sbata.
Notes (2)
- 1= Eudemus 170.15 Niese, Synagoge, Photius pi36 Theodoridis, and cf. Hesychius pi94; probably all deriving from commentary on Aristophanes, Clouds 260 and 262 (see n. 2 below). See also kappa 2389. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Clouds 260 (web address 1), with comments from the scholia. The commentator here seems to have misinterpreted the metaphorical meaning of the headword based on its resemblance to another word,
pai/palon, used of rocky places. In the context Socrates is speaking to Strepsiades and promising to make him a subtle speaker; hence the reference is to the clear sound of the castanet and the extreme fineness and subtlety of 'flour'. Other commentators and scholiasts either infer or report from other sources thatpaipa/lh is the finest of the flours, the implication being nearly the opposite to the interpretation of this commentator. The etymological relationship betweenpaipa/lh andpai/palon -- if any -- is unclear. For other entries dealing with words related to one or both, see pi 887 through pi 890. ↩
References
B. Niese, ed. (1922) "Excerpta ex Eudemi codice Parisino n. 2635,“ Ed. Philologus, suppl. 15
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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