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Headword: *)alecifa/rmaka
Adler number: alpha,1139
Translated headword: charms
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning things] able to keep off spells.[1] Menander in Child [writes]: "Ephesia walks thus around those getting married, speaking charms".[2]
Greek Original:
*)alecifa/rmaka: a)lechth/ria farma/kwn. *me/nandros *paidi/w|: *)efesi/a toi=s gamou=sin ou(/tws peripatei=, le/gwn a)lecifa/rmaka.
Notes:
Same entry in Photius (Lexicon alpha925 Theodoridis). The headword, neuter plural, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] cf. alpha 1137.
[2] Menander fr. 313 K.-Th., 274 K.-A. The present version of it, however, is garbled: for the Suda's adverb ou(/tws read the pronoun ou(=tos, which becomes the subject of the sentence -- 'this man walks around those getting married, speaking Ephesian charms' (for which see epsilon 3864).
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 May 2000@11:51:06.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 28 January 2001@05:28:19.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword) on 12 June 2002@07:02:20.
David Whitehead (augmented note 2.) on 5 May 2004@06:51:12.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords) on 3 February 2012@08:53:43.
David Whitehead on 19 August 2013@09:50:17.
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