Τοὔγκυκλον
the circuit; woman's girdle
Translated by Catharine Roth7 Feb 2014Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τοὔγκυκλον· τὸ ἔγκυκλον. τουτέστι τὴν Πύλον, διὰ τὴν τῶν τειχῶν περιβολήν. ἀπὸ μεταφορᾶς τῶν περιβολαίων. τουτέστιν ἣν ἔχομεν καὶ περιβαλλόμεθα.
Betacode
*tou)/gkuklon: to\ e)/gkuklon. toute/sti th\n *pu/lon, dia\ th\n tw=n teixw=n peribolh/n. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n peribolai/wn. toute/stin h(\n e)/xomen kai\ periballo/meqa.
Notes (1)
- The headword is a contraction, with crasis, of the phrase used here as the gloss. As with analogous entries elsewhere, the gloss therefore does not so much define the word substantively as resolve it into its constituent parts.
- 1From a scholion on Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1162, where the Laconian, speaking in mock-Doric dialect, says
tw)/gkuklon rather thantou)/gkuklon . The normal Attic spelling represented by the latter appears elsewhere in Aristophanes: Lysistrata 113, Thesmophoriazusae 499, Ecclesiazusae 536 (cf. epsilon 135). Its application to the circuit-wall of Pylos in Messenia (famously captured by the Athenians from the Spartans in 425/4; cf. beta 519, epsilon 1061, epsilon 3348, kappa 1731, etc.) is not attested elsewhere. Its relation to that place at Lysistrata 1162 is made explicit two lines later (1164), in a sexual double entendre on Reconciliation's anus. See generally J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 139 #147. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 15 Sep 2022
- typo — Catharine Roth
- expanded note; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- added cross-reference — William Hutton
- augmented notes, added keywords, raised status — William Hutton
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Catharine Roth