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Headword:
*gluku\s
a)gkw/n
Adler number: gamma,316
Translated headword: sweet elbow
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The proverb[1] [functions] not in terms of an opposition,[2] but aims to say "o sweet traits". It is a proverb, as [applied to] someone/something addressed. Thus the comic poet
Plato [used it] in the
Phaôn. An old man there is in love with a girl piper [and says]: "o golden hairband! o for my luxuriant ways! o sweet elbow!"[3] As if someone might say, "o sweet arm".
*gluku\s a)gkw/n: ou) kat' e)nanti/wsin h( paroimi/a, a)lla\ boulo/menos ei)pei=n, w)= gluke/a h)/qh. e)/sti de\ paroimi/a, w(s e)pifwnou/menon. ou(/tws e)xrh/sato *pla/twn o( kwmiko\s e)n tw=| *fa/wni. ge/rwn d' au)tw=| u(po/keitai e)rw=n au)lhtri/dos: w)= xrusou=n a)na/dhma, w)= toi=sin e)moi=s truferoi=si tro/pois, w)= gluku\s a)gkw/n. w(s ei)/ tis le/goi, w)= gluku\s ph=xus.
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; imagery; medicine; meter and music; proverbs; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 June 2003@02:00:23.
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