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Headword:
*)afqa/s
Adler number: alpha,4627
Translated headword: Aphthas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Another name for] Dionysus.[1] The alpha [is] intensive; like a)/staxus ["ear of corn"].[2] And [there is] a proverb: "Aphthas has spoken to you". He was an oraclemonger.
Greek Original:*)afqa/s: o( *dio/nusos. to\ a e)pitatiko/n: w(s a)/staxus. kai\ paroimi/a: o( *)afqa/s soi lela/lhken. h)=n de\ xrhsmolo/gos.
Notes:
[1] Apparently an error for Hephaestus. See
phi 477; also the version of the proverb, about to be quoted here, in Arsenius,
Apophthegmata 4.54a.
[2] Here the alpha is prothetic. See
alpha 4224.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 June 2001@23:00:19.
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