Ὑποδεῖσθε

underbind

Translated by D. Graham J. Shipley27 Oct 2002Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 14 words

Translation

[Meaning] tie round. "Underbind [...] your Laconians."1 It is a kind of sandal. 2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὑποδεῖσθε· περιδεσμεῖτε. ὑποδεῖσθε τὰς Λακωνικάς. ἔστι δὲ εἶδος ὑποδήματος.

Betacode
*(upodei=sqe: peridesmei=te. u(podei=sqe ta\s *lakwnika/s. e)/sti de\ ei)=dos u(podh/matos. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1Aristophanes, Ekklesiazusae 269, here abridged (u(podei=sqe d’ w(s ta/xista ta\s *Lakwnika/s, 'Underbind your Laconians as fast as you can'), with comment from the scholia there. ↩
  2. 2The word translated here as 'sandal', u(po/dhma, is itself another cognate of the verb u(pode/w, 'I bind under'. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 28 Nov 2013
  1. more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  2. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  3. added keywords — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — D. Graham J. Shipley

Cite this entry

“underbind.” Suda On Line. Tr. D. Graham J. Shipley. 27 October 2002. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/upsilon/480>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/upsilon/480>.

Translation by D. Graham J. Shipley for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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