Στραγγαλίδες
strangle-knots
Translated by David Whitehead10 Feb 2014Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] fastenings hard to undo. Pherecrates in Deserters [writes]: "for you, you were always tying strangle-knots."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Στραγγαλίδες· τὰ δύσλυτα ἅμματα. Φερεκράτης Αὐτομόλοις· ὑμεῖς γὰρ ἀεὶ στραγγαλίδας ἐσφίγγετε.
Betacode
*straggali/des: ta\ du/sluta a(/mmata. *ferekra/ths *au)tomo/lois: u(mei=s ga\r a)ei\ straggali/das e)sfi/ggete.
Notes (1)
- Likewise in Photius' Lexicon (sigma595 Theodoridis), similarly elsewhere; cf. Hesychius sigma1953. The headword is nominative plural. If it is quoted from somewhere in that form, the extant possibilities are Strattis fr. 48 Kock = 51 K.-A. (from his Phoenician Women) and Aristotle, History of Animals 587b22-23; alternatively it is the accusative plural of the quotation given here, converted into a nominative.
cf. generally sigma 1158. - 1Pherecrates fr. 21 Kock (25 K.-A.). ↩
Linked from2 entries
- σ1158Στραγγαλιῶδεςknotted[Meaning something] twisted. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] straggalwth\ ma/stic ["knotted whip"]. "He[A] ordered him[B] to be scourged with the knotted whip. But he[B] denied that he had said anything."
- σ1160Στραγόςcomplicated, irregular[Meaning] shameless, crooked, twisted, troublesome.
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- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
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- augmented general note — William Hutton
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead