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Headword:
Βάδος
Adler number: beta,23
Translated headword: walk
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Walking.
Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "this is why we are walking this walk".[1] [sc. Grammatically] formed as a joke. For just as [the noun] tread [comes] from [the verb] to tread --
Homer [writes]: "shunning the tread of mankind"[2] -- so
βάδος [comes] from the [verb]
βαδίζειν .
Βάδος: ἡ βάδισις. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισι: διὰ ταῦτα τόνδε τὸν βάδον βαδίζομεν. ἐν παιδιᾷ παρεσχημάτισται. ὡς γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ πατεῖν πάτος: Ὅμηρος: πάτον ἀνθρώπων ἀλεείνων: οὕτως ἀπὸ τοῦ βαδίζειν βάδος.
Notes:
The headword (LSJ entry at web address 1) is illustrated by the quotation given.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Birds 42 (web address 2), followed by comment from the
scholia there.
[2]
Homer Iliad 6.202 (web address 3).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Web address 3
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic
Translated by: John Arnold on 3 October 2000@15:33:19.
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