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Headword:
Ξενηλατεῖν
Adler number: xi,25
Translated headword: to banish foreigners
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The Lacedaimonians used to drive out foreigners with blows.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "What's strange? Just as in Lakedaimon, they are being driven out and a good many blows have been stirred up in town."[2] For a driving-out of foreigners occurred there once, after a heap of ashes had happened.[3]
Ξενηλατεῖν: Λακεδαιμόνιοι μετὰ πληγῶν ἐξήλαυνον τοὺς ξένους. Ἀριστοφάνης: τί δ' ἔστι δεινόν; ὥσπερ ἐν Λακεδαίμονι ξενηλατοῦνται καὶ κεκίνηνταί τινες πληγαὶ συχναὶ κατ' ἄστυ. ποτὲ γὰρ ἐκεῖσε σποδιᾶς γενομένης ξενηλασία γέγονε.
Notes:
See also under
delta 997.
[1] Same comment in
Photius s.v.
ξενηλατεῖν ; and cf.
Hesychius s.v.
ξενηλατοῦνται .
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 1012-14 (web address 1), with scholion to 1013.
[3] "Heap of ashes" translates the transmitted word
spodia, but an ancient commentator on
Birds 1013 glosses it with
sitodeia, "scarcity of food."
N.Dunbar, Aristophanes Birds, edited with introduction and commentary (Oxford 1995) pp.560-1.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; history; law
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica † on 16 February 2000@13:40:39.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and bibliography; increased keywords) on 20 September 2000@06:18:09.
Catharine Roth (supplied headword translation, added link, cosmetics) on 18 January 2002@22:53:07.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics; raised status) on 28 August 2007@05:42:01.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 28 August 2007@22:04:57.
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