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Headword:
*)/ekfrwn
Adler number: epsilon,718
Translated headword: witless
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] distracted, misguided, out of one's wits.[1]
"But he, becoming witless with drink [...]."[2]
Greek Original:*)/ekfrwn: e)cesthkw/s, parapai/wn, e)/cw frenw=n. o( de\ u(po\ me/qhs e)/kfrwn geno/menos.
Notes:
cf.
epsilon 716,
epsilon 717.
[1] Similar glossing already in
Hesychius (epsilon1807).
[2] Quotation unidentifiable in this precise form, but very like what
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 12.531F-532A (12.42 Kaibel), citing
Theopompus (FGrH 115 F31), says about the Thracian king Kotys' (
kappa 2173) deluded idea of "marrying" the goddess Athena:
... qa/lamon kataskeua/sas a)/nemen mequ/wn th\n qeo/n. h)/dh d' e)/kfrwn geno/menos ktl.
Translated by: William Hutton on 26 January 2007@05:41:28.
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