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Headword: Ἐξήμβλωκας
Adler number: epsilon,1729
Translated headword: you have caused a premature birth
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
You thrust [it] out half-finished. "To miscarry" [ἐξαμβλῶσαι ] is properly said of those women who give birth too soon, not according the norm of labor and childbirth. And the drug which causes women to miscarry is called ἀμβλώθριον .
Greek Original:
Ἐξήμβλωκας: ἡμιτελῆ ἐξέωσας. ἐξαμβλῶσαι δὲ ἰδίως ἐπὶ τῶν γυναικῶν λέγεται τῶν ἀποτικτουσῶν θᾶττον, οὐ κατὰ τὸν τῶν ὠδίνων καὶ τῆς κυοφορίας νόμον. καὶ τὸ φάρμακον δὲ τὸ αἴτιον τοῦ ἐξαμβλοῦν τὰς γυναῖκας ἀμβλώθριον καλεῖται.
Note:
From a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 137 (web address 1). cf. epsilon 1730, epsilon 1731. The headword is perfect active of ἐξαμβλόω , second person singular.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; imagery; medicine; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 August 2006@18:39:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmeticule) on 23 August 2006@03:59:41.
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