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Headword:
*gli/sxros
Adler number: gamma,289
Translated headword: wheedler
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] lowlife, flatterer. "Become a wheedler, asking, begging.
Euripides [...]". [In]
liparw=n the lambda-iota [is] long.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the noun]
glisxrw/n ["striver"], [meaning] desirer; from the [verb]
gli/xesqai ["to long for"].[2]
Also [sc. attested is the adverb]
gli/sxrws ["submissively"], [meaning] in a slippery manner.[3]
*gli/sxros: tapeino\s, ko/lac. genou= gli/sxros, prosaitw=n, liparw=n t' *eu)ripi/dh. liparw=n: to\ li makro/n. kai\ *gli/sxrwn, o( e)piqumhth/s: para\ to\ gli/xesqai. kai\ *gli/sxrws, o)lisqhrw=s.
Notes:
cf. generally
gamma 288,
gamma 290,
gamma 291.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 451-2 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the
scholia there; cf.
lambda 579. The verb
lipare/w could be transitive as well as intransitive, and both of these entries appear to treat it as the former; however, as the translation shows, "
Euripides" (which should be vocative anyway) is part of the following sentence.
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Peace 193, where the word occurs.
[3] Likewise already in
Hesychius.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 July 2002@23:51:31.
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