Let me burn, make holy.
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 238, where the headword (an aorist subjunctive occurs) occurs: Lysistrata herself says 'let me make this [goblet]
hagios'. For the concept of
hagios, suggesting 'an attitude and feeling of looking upward in awe and veneration', see generally Walter Burkert,
Greek Religion (Oxford [Blackwell] 1985) 270-1. The scholiast's glosses draw attention to the fact that a regular way of making an offering
hagios was to burn it up (holocaust); here the joke comes with Lysistrata offering to drain it dry.
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