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Headword:
*eu)trapeli/a
Adler number: epsilon,3771
Translated headword: witticism
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] silliness, frivolousness, lack of sophistication.[1]
"
Ptolemy urged everyone to applaud, signalling acceptance of his [Hyrcanus'] witticism."[2]
*eu)trapeli/a: mwrologi/a, koufo/ths, a)paideusi/a. o( de\ *ptolemai=os pa/ntas e)ke/leusen a)nakroth=sai, th=s eu)trapeli/as a)podexo/menos au)to/n.
Notes:
[1] =
Synagoge;
Photius,
Lexicon epsilon2355; cf.
Hesychius epsilon7246,
Etymologicum Gudianum 566.13,
Etymologicum Magnum 399.29, all stemming ultimately from commentary to
Ephesians 5:4, where the headword is employed in a pejorative sense.
See
epsilon 3772 for the related adjective.
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish Antiquities 12.214 (web address 1); see already
alpha 1919 and again
pi 3040. Here the headword appears in the genitive case, and with its more usual positive connotation.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; politics; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 9 February 2008@01:20:05.
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