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Headword:
*xari/sion
Adler number: chi,121
Translated headword: favor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] thank-offering.
"Let these things be recorded in my name, [sc. as one] rendering small favors in return for great."[1]
Also [sc. attested is]
xari/sioi ["favor-cakes"], a type of cake.
Aristophanes [writes] in
Banqueters: "I will send favor-cakes to concubines in the evenings."[2]
*xari/sion: xaristh/rion. tau=ta a)nagegra/fqw moi, xari/sia o)li/ga a)nti\ pollw=n a)podido/nti. kai\ *xari/sioi, plakou=ntos ei)=dos. *)aristofa/nhs *daitaleu=si: pe/myw pallakai=s e(spe/ras xarisi/ous.
Notes:
[1]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 349 Zintzen (216 Asmus); quoted at much greater length at
alpha 4174.
[2] A mangled version of
Aristophanes fr. 202 Kock, now 211 Kassel-Austin. See also
alpha 2082, which reads
plakou=ntas ("cakes") for this entry's unmetrical
pallakai=s ("to concubines").
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 March 2008@23:01:56.
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