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Headword: Κάκκη
Adler number: kappa,147
Translated headword: caca
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
It also[1] has a vulgar connotation. Impurity, and especially, foul-smelling excrement. Aristophanes [writes]: "keeping your nose away from the caca."
Greek Original:
Κάκκη: ἔχει δὲ καὶ τὸ κακέμφατον. ἡ ἀκαθαρσία, καὶ μάλιστα τὸ δύσοσμον ἀποπάτημα. Ἀριστοφάνης: ἀπὸ μὲν κάκκης ῥῖν' ἀπέχων.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Peace 162 (Web address 1 -- part of Trygaios' instructions to his dung-beetle steed), with comments derived from the scholia thereto.
[1] 'Also' because the scholiast has begun by asserting that κάκκη stands for κακία .
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; stagecraft; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 February 2007@09:57:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics) on 11 February 2007@10:25:59.
Catharine Roth (supplied link) on 11 February 2007@16:24:34.
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