Σκομβρίσαι
to foot-slap
Translated by William Hutton27 Feb 2014Vetting: high1 revision
Translation
In Juba, in [book] 2 [of] On the Corruption of Language it is explained as a sort of outrageous prank, and of someone striking across the belly with the flat of his foot so as to produce a noise.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σκομβρίσαι· παρὰ Ἰόβᾳ ἐν βʹ φθορᾶς λέξεως παιδιᾶς ἀσελγοῦς εἶδος ἀποδίδοται, καὶ κατὰ τὸ ἦτρον πλατεῖ τῷ ποδὶ πλήσσοντος, ὡς ψόφον ἐργάσασθαι.
Betacode
*skombri/sai: para\ *)io/ba| e)n b# fqora=s le/cews paidia=s a)selgou=s ei)=dos a)podi/dotai, kai\ kata\ to\ h)=tron platei= tw=| podi\ plh/ssontos, w(s yo/fon e)rga/sasqai.
Notes (1)
- = Photius sigma359 (where however Theodoridis punctuates before, not after,
a)podi/dotai ); cf. Hesychius sigma1082, rho38. The headword is the aorist active infinitive of the verbskombri/zw, which is defined differently in sigma 651. No form of this verb appears outside lexicography. - 1FGrH [Juba II: iota 399] 275 F22. ↩
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Revision history1 revision · last 27 Feb 2014
- another x-ref; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton