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Headword:
*)agleuke/s
Adler number: alpha,269
Translated headword: sour
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] what is bitter.
Xenophon used [the word] in the
Oeconomicus.[1] But the word seems to be foreign, Sicilian; at any rate it is much used later in
Rhinthon.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the comparative]
a)gleuke/steron, meaning more/rather bitter.
Xenophon in
Hiero [sc. uses the word].[3]
*)agleuke/s: to\ a)hde/s. *cenofw=n ei)/rhken e)n tw=| *oi)konomikw=|. dokei= de\ ceniko\n ei)=nai to\ o)/noma, *sikeliko/n: polu\ gou=n e)sti\ pa/lin para\ *(ri/nqwni. kai\ *)agleuke/steron, a)nti\ tou= a)hde/steron. *cenofw=n *(ie/rwni.
Notes:
[1] The word does not appear in the transmitted texts of Xen.
Oec., but is a suggested emendation in both 8.3 (for the mss
a)terpe/s) and 8.4 (where its superlative could replace the mss
a)klee/staton).
[2]
Rhinthon fr. 28 Kaibel, 25 K.-A;
Photius alpha200 Theodoridis. (
Rhinthon was a writer of "phlyax" plays, farces, in C3-BCE Syracuse. See generally OCD(4) p.1138, s.v. phlyakes, and 1277, s.v.
Rhinthon.)
[2] Xen.
Hiero 1.21.
Translated by: Roger Travis on 4 October 2000@13:00:57.
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