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Headword:
*)/attin
Adler number: alpha,4355
Translated headword: Attis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [One should say Attis], not Attia.[1]
Demosthenes [writes]: "you begin with the [shouts of] 'Saboi': 'Attis Huis, Attis'."[2] Theopompos in
Charlatan Women [writes]: "I will punish you and your Attis."[3]
*)/attin, ou)xi\ *)/attia. *dhmosqe/nhs: kata/rxeis toi=s *sa/bois: *)/attis *(/uis, *)/attis. *qeo/pompos *kaphli/si: kola/somai/ g' e)/sw kai\ to\n so\n *)/attin.
Notes:
This entry and
alpha 4354 are out of alphabetical order.
[1] cf.
Photius s.v. The headword, in both instances, is actually the accusative
*)/Attin. The rejected
*)/Attia is not otherwise attested.
[2] An approximation of
Demosthenes 18.260 (web address 1); cf. under
alpha 4354. This refers to the shout of worshippers of Cybele,
attês huês, which here is misspelled with iota as a result of the phonological changes in medieval Greek which caused iota and eta to be pronounced the same way.
[3]
Theopompus fr. 27 Kock, now 28 K.-A. (Adler notes, but does not adopt, Porson's necessary emendation from
g' e)/sw to
s' e)gw/.)
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 22 March 2002@12:13:02.
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