Στρεφοδικοπανουργία
lawsuit-twisting-villainy
Translated by David Whitehead15 Oct 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
The locution is put together from the characteristic[s] of twisting and blackmailing.1 Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "you will soon see the bitterness of your lawsuit-twisting-villainy."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Στρεφοδικοπανουργία· συντέθειται ἡ λέξις παρὰ τὸ στρεβλὸν ἦθος καὶ συκοφαντικόν. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισι· πικρὰν τάχ' ὄψει στρεφοδικοπανουργίαν.
Betacode
*strefodikopanourgi/a: sunte/qeitai h( le/cis para\ to\ streblo\n h)=qos kai\ sukofantiko/n. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi: pikra\n ta/x' o)/yei strefodikopanourgi/an.
Notes (1)
- Aristophanes, Birds 1468, with scholion.
The Suda transmits this noun as streph- rather than streps-, as does one manuscript, but for what is surely a cognate verb see sigma 1199. - 1For 'blackmailing' cf. sigma 1330 and under sigma 1332. ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 1 Jan 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another note — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead