[B-Greek] translation for O POPOI ??

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 12 22:32:54 EST 2011


ποππύζωI.II.III.IV.
Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones and Roderick McKenzie. A 
Greek-English Lexicon. Rev. and augm. throughout. Oxford; New York: Clarendon 
Press; Oxford University Press, 1996.

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From: Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
To: Shirley Rollinson <rollinsondr at yahoo.com>; B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org; 
davidmckay52 at gmail.com; jkilmon at historian.net
Sent: Wed, January 12, 2011 7:12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] translation for O POPOI ??

Shirley asked

<...but does anyone know what a POPOS really was ?>

Hi, Shirley,

Wharton, Etyma Graeca, connects it with ποππύζω (POPPUZW) "I whistle."

Mark L
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From: Shirley Rollinson <rollinsondr at yahoo.com>
To: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org; davidmckay52 at gmail.com; jkilmon at historian.net
Sent: Wed, January 12, 2011 4:38:22 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] translation for O POPOI ??

Yassas Y'all
Could Jack or David, or anyone else, come up with a good translation for O POPOI 

?
The dictionaries suggest "Alas. alack, woe is me" etc. - But it's used by a 
rough tough Bronze Age soldier facing certain death (Hector) - not by a prim and 

proper Victorian lady.
My students came up with a range of (unprintable) equivalents - but does anyone 
know what a POPOS really was ?
thank you
Shirley Rollinson
New Mexico (just 10 miles from Texas)


      
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tootle (on a crude musical pipe), Theoc.5.7.smack, of loud kisses, AP5.244 
(Maced.), 284 (Agath.).applaud, Phld.Acad.Ind.p.14 M.:—also in showing 
disapprovl, tut-tut Pass., call to horses, etc., Ar.Pl.732, cf. D.S.1.83:—Med., 
call to a horse, S.Fr.878: Com., call to a man, , Dor. -ύσδω,onomatop. word, 
smack the lips or cluck: hence,πόρρωθεν ἀπιδὼν ἐπόππυσενTimocl.21.7; παιδίον 
ὑποκορίζεσθαι ποππύζωνThphr.Char.20.5; p 1449 Ποππύζουσα, title of play by 
Alexis; κἂν ἀστράψω ποππύζουσιν .. οἱ πάνυ σεμνοίAr.V.626 (cf. ποππυσμός).εἰ 
ποππυσθείη καὶ κροτηθείηPl.Ax.368d. 


      


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