[Meaning] earrings,[1] [so named] from the fact that they go on the lobes of the ears.[2]
"Trajan said to the son of Abgar, 'I find fault with you, because you did not come to me previously to join in my campaigns and take part in my suffering, and for this reason I would gladly rip off one of those lobe-ornaments of yours'; and at the same time he grabbed hold of one of his ears. Both his ears were pierced and gold earrings hung from both."[3]
*)ellw/bia: ta\ e)nw/tia, dia\ to\ e)n toi=s lwboi=s tw=n w)/twn ei)=nai. o( de\ *traiano\s le/gei tw=| *au)ga/rou paidi/: me/mfomai/ se, o(/ti mh\ pro/sqen h(=kes par' e)me\ sustrateu/swn kai\ tw=n po/nwn summetasxw/n, kai\ e)pi\ tw=|de a)\n h(de/ws tw=n e)llwbi/wn tou/twn to\ e(/tero/n sou a)pospa/saimi: e)faya/menos a(/ma tou= w)to\s tou= e(te/rou. tw=| de\ h)=n a)/mfw ta\ w)=ta tetrhme/na kai\ e)c a)mfoi=n xrusa= e)nw/tia e)chrthme/na.
For the headword (and its manifestations within the body of the entry), Adler prints the reading of mss IT, with omega as the second syllable (
e)llwb-). Other manuscripts, and other attestations of the word in other writers, are consistent in making that vowel an omicron (
e)llob-); cf. even
lambda 634. Perhaps the lexicographer, or the scribes of IT, were influenced by words related to
lw/bh ('abuse'), of which the very next entry serves as an example (
epsilon 886).
[1] Up to this point, similar glosses are found in
Hesychius epsilon2161,
Etymologicum Gudianum 459.16,
Lexica Segueriana 216.21 Bachmann. For earrings see
epsilon 1419.
[2] Similar etymological explanations are found in Aelius
Dionysius epsilon33,
Etymologicum Magnum 332.39. Less similar are the
scholia (46.7-10, 22.29 and 52.7) to various passages of Lucian where the headword occurs.
[3] Ascribed to Arrian (
Parthika fr. 46 Roos). For Abgar cf.
alpha 4409.
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