περίψημα
Ἐρωτώμενος διὰ τί ὀλίγους ἔχει μαθητάς, ἔφη ὅτι ἀργυρέᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλλω ῥάβδῳ → When asked why he had so few pupils, he replied ‘I chase them away with a silver stick (Diogenes Laertius 6.4.5, on the philosopher Antisthenes)
English (LSJ)
ατος, τό,
A anything wiped off, offscouring, of a vile person (or scapegoat), 1 Ep.Cor.4.13, Phot.; π. σου your humble servant, CIL8.12924 (Carthage), LW2493 (Syria), Classical Studies in honor of J.C.Rolfe 318 (Ostia) ; peripsuma su (sic), Dessau ILS5725 (Brixia).
German (Pape)
[Seite 601] τό, das, was beim Abwischen od. Reinigen abgeht, Unreinigkeit, Sp., wie N. T.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
περίψημα: τό, τὸ ἀποσπογγιζόμενον, περιττὸν πρᾶγμα καὶ ἀπορρίψιμον, «σκουπίδι», ἐπὶ φαύλου ἢ μηδαμινοῦ ἀνθρώπου, πρὸς Κορινθ. Α΄ Ἐπιστ. δ΄, 13, Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 9282, Φώτ.· ἴδε κάθαρμα Ι. 2.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ατος (τό) :
1 ce qu’on ôte en frottant tout autour, ordure;
2 délivrance.
Étymologie: περιψάω.
English (Thayer)
περιψηματος, τό (from περιψάω 'to wipe off all round'; and this from περί (which see III:1), and ψάω 'to wipe,' 'rub'), properly, what is wiped off; dirt rubbed off'; offscouring, scrapings: περικάθαρμα, which see Suidas and other Greek lexicographers under the word relate that the Athenians, in order to avert public calamities, yearly threw a criminal into the sea as an offering to Poseidon; hence, ἀργύριον ... περίψημα τοῦ παιδίου ἡμῶν γένοιτο (as if to say) let it become an expiatory offering, a ransom, for our child, i. e. in comparison with the saving of our son's life let it be to us a despicable and worthless thing, Ignatius ad Ephesians 8,1 [ET]; 18,1 [ET]; (see Lightfoot's note on the former passage).
