Ὑπεκρούσω
you attacked
Translated by Ioannis Doukas2 Aug 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] you hinted. Aristophanes in Plutus [writes]: "you have [not] described my own life, but you attacked that of the beggars." Or meaning you said, you struck. From a metaphor of kitharas or some other [sc. musical] instrument.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὑπεκρούσω· ᾐνίξω. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ· τὸν ἐμὸν βίον εἴρηκας, τὸν τῶν πτωχῶν δ' ὑπεκρούσω. ἢ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐφθέγξω, ἀνεκρούσω. ἀπὸ μεταφορᾶς τῶν κιθαρῶν ἤ τινος ἄλλου ὀργάνου.
Betacode
*(upekrou/sw: h)|ni/cw. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: to\n e)mo\n bi/on ei)/rhkas, to\n tw=n ptwxw=n d' u(pekrou/sw. h)\ a)nti\ tou= e)fqe/gcw, a)nekrou/sw. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n kiqarw=n h)/ tinos a)/llou o)rga/nou.
Notes
- Penia (Poverty) in Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 548 (web address 1), with scholion.
The headword verb, extracted from this line, isu(pekrou/sw (as here) in the mss of Aristophanes but some modern editions (including that of Coulon and van Daele on TLG) printe)pekrou/sw on the basis of Pollux 9.139.
For the kithara see kappa 1590.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Neighbouring entries
Revision history3 revisions · last 21 Nov 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified tr; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas