Στυφελισμούς
maltreatment
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Translation
[Meaning] anger, insolence, censure, reproach.1 "Such anger and maltreatment as Crates endured from you," Aristophanes [says] in Knights, "who sent you away after giving you breakfast at small expense."2
And in the Fables: "where on cruel rocks [their] backs like potsherds and [their] crooked limbs were smashed."3
And in the Fables: "where on cruel rocks [their] backs like potsherds and [their] crooked limbs were smashed."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Στυφελισμούς· ὀργάς, ὕβρεις, μέμψεις, λοιδορίας. οἵας δὲ Κράτης ὀργὰς ὑμῶν ἠνέσχετο καὶ στυφελισμούς. Ἀριστοφάνης Ἱππεῦσι. ὃς ἀπὸ σμικρᾶς δαπάνης ὑμᾶς ἀριστίζων ἀπέπεμπε. καὶ ἐν Μυθικοῖς· ὅθι στυφελῶν ἀπὸ πετρῶν ὀστρακόεντα νῶτα καὶ ἀγκύλα γυῖα κεάσθη.
Betacode
*stufelismou/s: o)rga/s, u(/breis, me/myeis, loidori/as. oi(/as de\ *kra/ths o)rga\s u(mw=n h)ne/sxeto kai\ stufelismou/s. *)aristofa/nhs *(ippeu=si. o(\s a)po\ smikra=s dapa/nhs u(ma=s a)risti/zwn a)pe/pempe. kai\ e)n *muqikoi=s: o(/qi stufelw=n a)po\ petrw=n o)strako/enta nw=ta kai\ a)gku/la gui=a kea/sqh.
Notes (3)
- cf. generally sigma 1264.
- 1Headword and glosses are in fact plurals (likewise in the quotation to follow), but English idiom is less amenable to this than Greek. ↩
- 2Variant reading for
stufeligmou/s at Aristophanes, Knights 537-8 (web address 1); the gloss is derived from a scholion on these lines. The Crates mentioned here is universally assumed to be the well-known comic poet of that name: kappa 2339; OCD4 Crates(1). (Kappa 2340 is not regarded as the same man but an obscure namesake: so e.g. Dunbar 228.) ↩ - 3Fragment of a fable in hexameters, using the adjective
stufelo/s from which the headword is derived. This passage is included by Crusius in an appendix to his edition of Babrius, p. 21. ↩
References
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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