Ὑσπλάτιδος
starting-gate
Translated by Catharine Roth5 Jun 2011Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
"As if from a single starting-gate."1 Meaning from a send-off, a starting-rope, from a single starting-point; or from a single pole and turning-post. Aristophanes [writes]: "[those women] who from a single starting-gate drove the men away from the[ir] cunts." That is, from the female genitals.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὑσπλάτιδος· ὥσπερ ἀπὸ μιᾶς ὑσπλάτιδος. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀφέσεως, βαλβῖδος, ἀπὸ μιᾶς ἀφετηρίας· ἤγουν ἀπὸ ἑνὸς κανόνος καὶ καμπτῆρος. Ἀριστοφάνης· αἵπερ ἀπὸ μιᾶς ὑσπλάτιδος ἀπήλαον τοὺς ἄνδρας ἀπὸ τῶν ὑσσάκων. τουτέστι τῶν γυναικείων αἰδοίων.
Betacode
*(uspla/tidos: w(/sper a)po\ mia=s u(spla/tidos. a)nti\ tou= a)fe/sews, balbi=dos, a)po\ mia=s a)fethri/as: h)/goun a)po\ e(no\s kano/nos kai\ kampth=ros. *)aristofa/nhs: ai(/per a)po\ mia=s u(spla/tidos a)ph/laon tou\s a)/ndras a)po\ tw=n u(ssa/kwn. toute/sti tw=n gunaikei/wn ai)doi/wn.
Notes (2)
- The headword should be not
u(spla/tidos butu(splagi/dos , genitive singular of Laconianu(splagi/s ; cf.u(/splhc at upsilon 684. - 1This phrase is presumably presented as part of the Aristophanic quotation given below, but it begins with
w(/sper whereas the quotation hasai(/per . ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1000-1001 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. upsilon 672. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- υ672Ὑσσάκωνof cunts[Meaning] of the female genitals.
- υ684Ὕσπληξgin, snare, starting-device, trap, trigger[Meaning a] scourge, starting-gate, ox-goad, or spur, which strikes the oxen. "But he, being ready as if from a starting-device, threw out of it(?)." And elsewhere: "who set you, the beardless Hermes, by…
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Revision history4 revisions · last 1 Dec 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth