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Headword:
*gloio/s
Adler number: gamma,306
Translated headword: sticky, sticky residue
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It means the same as ma/sqlhs ["slippery"].[1] The metaphor is from the oil which sticks in the baths,[2] which makes those who contact it slip. So this man is praying to become of such a character that he may be able as if to slip away from the moneylenders and escape. And even now those who are crooked in their disposition and do not keep any steady understanding and who report one thing but think and do another, we call gloioi/ because of their slippery and untrustworthy disposition. Otherwise [interpreted]: it is used in reference to the one who is defiled and dirty and stingy; for the dirty man because of his habits is similar to sticky sediment. Transferred to [the man's] character it means rascally and slippery and changeable.
Greek Original:*gloio/s: to\ au)to\ dhloi= tw=| ma/sqlhs. ei)/lhptai de\ h( metafora\ a)po\ tou= e)n toi=s balanei/ois e)lai/ou pephgo/tos, o(/per tou\s e)pilambanome/nous diolisqa/nein pe/fuke. toiou=tos ou)=n kai\ ou(=tos eu)/xetai gene/sqai tou\s tro/pous, i(/n' w(/sper diolisqa/nein kai\ feu/gein du/nhtai tou\s daneista/s. kai\ me/xri deu=ro de\ tou\s th=| gnw/mh| ska/zontas kai\ mhde\n staqero\n fronou=ntas kai\ a)/lla me\n e)paggellome/nous, a)/lla de\ fronou=ntas kai\ pra/ssontas, dia\ to\ th=s gnw/mhs o)lisqhro\n kai\ a)/piston gloiou\s kalou=men. a)/llws. e)pi\ tou= miarou= kai\ r(uparou= kai\ mikrolo/gou paralamba/netai: kai\ ga\r o( r(uparo\s dia\ th\n a)/skhsin su/neggu/s pws e)sti tw=| gloiw=|. e)pi\ de\ to\ h)=qos metenexqe\n to\n moxqhro\n dhloi= h)\ o)lisqhro\n kai\ eu)meta/bolon.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 449, where the headword occurs as an adjective (web address 1).
cf. generally
gamma 307.
[1] Also used in the Aristophanic line; and cf.
mu 248,
mu 249,
rho 300.
[2] Oil which the bathers rub on their skins to remove dirt, which settles on the floor of the baths. See LSJ s.v. (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: athletics; comedy; daily life; definition; economics; ethics; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 May 2002@21:07:30.
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