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Headword:
*(/eyia
Adler number: epsilon,4064
Translated headword: puns
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] games from words;[1] also [sc. attested is the related adjective] philepsios,[2] [meaning] one who is playful;[3] but with a smooth breathing philepsios is someone fond of speaking.[4]
Greek Original:*(/eyia: ta\ a)po\ lo/gwn pai/gnia: kai\ file/yios, o( filopai/gmwn: yilou/menon de\ filolo/gos e)sti\n o( file/yios.
Notes:
Same or similar material in other lexica, and cf. also the
scholia to Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica 1.459, where the related verb occurs.
[1] The primary headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) is plural of a neuter noun connected with
epsilon 4063 (q.v.).
[2] For
file/yios, see also
Hesychius s.v. It is also found as a personal name in classical
Athens: see
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 177 and
Demosthenes 24.134, the latter generating
phi 316. Note also the proverb
*file/yios o(/de (
to\n tro/pon) in Gregorius 3.29 and
Apostolius 17.86.
[3]
phi 400.
[4] cf. generally
Hesychius s.v.
filolo/gos (two entries). The Suda's 'with a smooth breathing' obviously cannot refer to the beginning of the word and must instead pertain to the aspiration of the
epsi- element; but even so it is odd (cf.
alpha 3112).
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; rhetoric
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 27 June 2007@10:40:41.
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