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Headword: Ἐξίδισεν
Adler number: epsilon,1759
Translated headword: He oozed
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
He defecated. Aristophanes [writes]: "if any Patrokleides amongst you needed a shit he would not ooze into his cloak, but fly away."[1]
Greek Original:
Ἐξίδισεν: ἀπεπάτησεν. Ἀριστοφάνης: εἴτε Πατροκλείδης τις ὑμῶν χεζητιῶν οὐκ ἂν ἐξίδισεν εἰς θοιμάτιον, ἀλλ' ἔπτατο.
Note:
[1] Aristophanes, Birds 790-1 (Web address 1), imperfectly quoted. Dunbar (below) p.482 suggests that "on some public occasion [Patrokleides] had had an embarrassing attack of diarrhoea, which he was not allowed to forget." On the language here see Henderson (below) pp.187-92.
References:
J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975)
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 November 2000@05:54:35.
Vetted by:
Debra Hamel (corrected citation) on 21 January 2001@15:09:15.
David Whitehead on 17 June 2002@08:03:46.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added italics; added link; cosmetics) on 26 September 2003@16:27:52.
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