Σκαλαθῦραι

to cunt-poke

Translated by David Whitehead1 Feb 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

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[Meaning] to copulate. Aristophanes [writes]: "if, seeing a girl, [anyone] should desire her and wish to cunt-poke".

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σκαλαθῦραι· συνουσιάσαι. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἢν μείρακ' ἰδὼν ἐπιθυμήσῃ καὶ βούληται σκαλαθῦραι.

Betacode

*skalaqu=rai: sunousia/sai. *)aristofa/nhs: h)\n mei/rak' i)dw\n e)piqumh/sh| kai\ bou/lhtai skalaqu=rai.

Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 611, with scholion. On the verb, apparently an Aristophanic coinage, see J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 168 #294 (and 137 ##140-141 on qu/ra).

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