σπάργανον
ἀλλ' οὐκ ἂν μαχέσαιτο· χέσαιτο γάρ, εἰ μαχέσαιτο → fighting is what she can't do, for if she should fight she would shit
English (LSJ)
τό, (σπάργω)
A band for swathing infants, ib.151,306, Pi.N.1.38: mostly in pl., swaddling-clothes, h.Merc.237, Pi.P.4.114; παῖς ἔτ' ὢν ἐν σπαργάνοις A.Ch.755, cf. 529,759, Ag. 1606; εἰς σπάργανά μ' αὐτὸς ἔθηκεν Epigr.Gr.314.6 (Smyrna, iii A.D.); ἐκ πρώτων σ. ab incunabulis, S.E.M.1.41; τὰ τῆς γεννήσεως εὐτελῆ σ. a mean origin, Hdn.7.1.2:—hence, 2 in Trag. and Com., objects left with an exposed child, the marks by which a person's true birth and family are identified (Lat. crepundia, monumenta), S.OT1035, Men.Pk.15, Donat. ad Ter.Eun.753; so prob. τούτου (sc. τοῦ Τηλέφου) δὸς . . μοι τὰ σ. Ar.Ach.431. II a plant,= ὠκιμοειδές, f.l. for σπαργάνιον, Ps.-Dsc.4.28.
German (Pape)
[Seite 917] τό, Windel, für kleine Kinder; H. h. Merc. 151. 237; Pind. N. 1, 38 P. 4, 114; συνεξελαύνει τυτθὸν ὄντ' ἐν σπαργάνοις, Aesch. Ag. 1588, vgl. Ch. 522; παῖς ἔτ' ὢν ἐν σπαργάνοις, 744; Soph. O. R. 1035, ebenfalls im plur., wie Eur. immer; ἀπὸ νηπιότητος καὶ ἐκ πρώτων σπαργάνων, S. Emp. adv. math. 41; bei Ar. Ach. 406 = Lumpen.
