Ἐξεμεῖν
to throw up, to vomit forth
Translated by William Hutton2 Mar 2007Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to empty oneself out. Aristophanes [writes]: "don't, I really beg you," -- that is, don't say [it] at all -- "except when I'm about to throw up." Speak, he is saying, when you have waited until I'm about to throw up; for I might throw up more easily [then].1