Ὑποζώματα
reinforcing-planks, undergirdings
Translated by David Whitehead14 Nov 2001Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning the] timbers of the ship. Instead of saying "reinforcing-planks" the shoemaker, in jest, said "soups" to a cook, as being an expert in seasonings and soups. It was forbidden to export timber and pitch from Athens. The Spartans too had triremes, since certain islands were part of their empire. Aristophanes [writes]: "I inform against this man and assert that he is exporting, for the Peloponnesian triremes, soups".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὑποζώματα· ξύλα τῆς νεώς. ἀντὶ τοῦ εἰπεῖν ὑποζώματα ὁ σκυτεὺς πρὸς μάγειρον παίζων εἶπε ζωμεύματα, ὡς ἀρτύσεων ἔμπειρον καὶ ζωμευμάτων. ἀπείρητο δὲ ἀπὸ Ἀθηνῶν ἐξάγειν ξύλα καὶ πίσσαν. εἶχον δὲ καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι τριήρεις, ἐπειδὴ ἦρχον καὶ νήσων τινῶν. Ἀριστοφάνης. τοῦτον τὸν ἄνδρ' ἐγὼ δείκνυμι καὶ φήμ' ἐξάγειν τῇσι Πελοποννησίων τριήρεσι ζωμεύματα.
Betacode
*(upozw/mata: cu/la th=s new/s. a)nti\ tou= ei)pei=n u(pozw/mata o( skuteu\s pro\s ma/geiron pai/zwn ei)=pe zwmeu/mata, w(s a)rtu/sewn e)/mpeiron kai\ zwmeuma/twn. a)pei/rhto de\ a)po\ *)aqhnw=n e)ca/gein cu/la kai\ pi/ssan. ei)=xon de\ kai\ *lakedaimo/nioi trih/reis, e)peidh\ h)=rxon kai\ nh/swn tinw=n. *)aristofa/nhs. tou=ton to\n a)/ndr' e)gw\ dei/knumi kai\ fh/m' e)ca/gein th=|si *peloponnhsi/wn trih/resi zwmeu/mata.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Knights 278-9 (which needs the first verb to be emended to the technical/compound
e)ndei/knumi : web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; cf. already zeta 134.
See also upsilon 184.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- ζ134Ζωμεύματαsoups[sc. He said "soups"], but [he meant] "undergirders", the timbers of a ship. So the shoemaker, instead of saying "undergirders", said in jest "soups" to a cook, as being an expert in seasonings and soups.
- τ365Τεταμένον φῶς εὐθὺς οἷον κίοναa light stretched straight like a pillarHe is speaking of the heavenly [light]: for the continuous [sunexe/s means] the foundation[?], the undergirding of the cosmos. And then going on to say "at the extremities," the axle is imagined. [He writes] eu)qu/…
- υ184Ὑπεζωσμένοςundergirded[Meaning he who/that which is] surrounded, being dragged.
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