Τύμπανα

cudgels

Translated by Catharine Roth31 Jan 2014Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 23 words

[Meaning] sticks.¹ From the [verb] tu/ptein ["to hit"]. Timbers, on which they used to beat [people]; for they used this [kind of] punishment.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τύμπανα· βάκλα. παρὰ τὸ τύπτειν. ξύλα, ἐν οἷς ἐτυμπάνιζον· ἐχρῶντο γὰρ ταύτῃ τῇ τιμωρίᾳ.

Betacode

*tu/mpana: ba/kla. para\ to\ tu/ptein. cu/la, e)n oi(=s e)tumpa/nizon: e)xrw=nto ga\r tau/th| th=| timwri/a|.

1The headword is plural of the neuter noun tumpanon. The glossing synonym is a transliteration of Latin baculum. This entry is out of alphabetical order. Manuscript G has it after 1164 where it would belong; M has it after 1165 but (according to Adler) corrects the order. The present order would be right here and in Hesychius (as LSJ note) if the headword is spelled tu/pana, a form which is guaranteed by the meter at several places in poetry and which would make the etymological point clearer. ↩
2From a scholion on Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 476, where the phrase w)= tu/mpana kai\ ku/fwnes occurs; already at kappa 2800. See also Hesychius omega487. For tumpani/zein see tau 1165. ↩

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