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Headword:
*)epw|do/s
Adler number: epsilon,2833
Translated headword: enchantress
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] she who sings over the children who are sick.[1]
Also [sc. attested is]
e)pw|dh/ ["enchantment"], [meaning] sorcery.[2]
Polybius [writes]: "they were making the test of every kind of spell and amulet."[3]
Sophocles [writes]: "it is not [the work] of a wise doctor to wail enchantments over a wound which needs surgery."[4]
*)epw|do/s: h( e)pa/|dousa toi=s nosou=si paisi/. kai\ *)epw|dh/, h( gohtei/a. *polu/bios: pa/shs e)pw|dh=s kai\ peria/mmatos pei=ran e)la/mba- non. *sofoklh=s: ou) pro\s i)atrou= sofou= qrhnei=n e)pw|da\s pro\s tomw=nti ph/mati.
Notes:
cf.
epsilon 1987,
epsilon 1925.
[1] Same entry in other lexica, beginning with
Hesychius epsilon5580. The glossing seems to have a particular enchantress in mind.
[2] Differently glossed, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
[3]
Polybius 33.17.2 (on the Rhodians in 154/3, facing war with the Cretans).
[4]
Sophocles,
Ajax 581-2 (web address 1); cf.
theta 480,
pi 3143.
Web address 1
Keywords: children; daily life; definition; ethics; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; meter and music; tragedy; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 August 2007@23:29:21.
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