Ζυγώθρισον
weigh up; lock up
Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo18 Jun 2005Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] even up, set in balance. Leave aside what is in doubt, then examine it again and, in effect, try to open [it]. For a)nazugou=n is to open the door outside. But some [interpret] zugw/qrison [as] fit together, put together. Aristophanes in Clouds [uses the word].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ζυγώθρισον· ἴσωσον, ζυγοστάτησον. ἔασον τὸ ἀπορούμενον, ἔπειτα πάλιν ἀνασκόπησον καὶ οἷον ἀνοίγειν ἀποπειράθητι. τὸ γὰρ ἀναζυγοῦν ἐστι τὸ ἔξωθεν ἀνοίγειν τὴν θύραν. οἱ δὲ ζυγώθρισον, συνάρμοσον, σύμπηξον. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις.
Betacode
*zugw/qrison: i)/swson, zugosta/thson. e)/ason to\ a)porou/menon, e)/peita pa/lin a)nasko/phson kai\ oi(=on a)noi/gein a)popeira/qhti. to\ ga\r a)nazugou=n e)sti to\ e)/cwqen a)noi/gein th\n qu/ran. oi( de\ zugw/qrison, suna/rmoson, su/mphcon. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais.
Notes
- The headword is the aorist active imperative of the verb
zugwqri/zw . It occurs in Aristophanes, Clouds 745, where Socrates says to Strepsiades: 'and if you are puzzled in any one of your conceptions, leave it and go; and then set it in motion again [ki/nhson au)=qis ] with your judgement, andzugw/qrison it'. The scholion quoted here is concerned more withki/nhson au)=qis 'put in motion again' than withzugw/qrison , i.e. trying to explain the metaphoric use of the verbkine/w and its relation to the verbzugwqri/zw .
See also Pollux 10.26 (kai\ to\ zugw/qrison de\ e)pi\ tou= klei=son ei)w/qasi ta/ttein ; 'and they used to applyzugw/qrison with the same meaning as lock it up') and Hesychius zeta195 for the verb in its literal sense fromzu/gwqron 'bolt of a door' (here zeta 193).
The alternative interpretation in the scholia (and again here) is also a metaphorical reading of the verb, literally meaning 'put on the bolt' (see H. Stephanus s.v.*zugwqri/zw ), but this 'gives inferior sense' (Dover ad loc.).
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Revision history3 revisions · last 8 Dec 2012
- betacode — Catharine Roth
- more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaked headword and translation; streamlined notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Stefano Sanfilippo