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Headword:
*laro/n
Adler number: lambda,126
Translated headword: pleasant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] warm, gentle, sweet.[1]
"And may the moist dew, which the old man breathed rather pleasantly from his soft mouth, continually dampen him."[2]
Greek Original:*laro/n: xliaro/n, proshne/s, h(du/. kai/ min a)ei\ te/ggoi noterh\ dro/sos, h(=s o( geraio\s laro/teron malakw=n e)/pneen e)k stoma/twn.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at
Photius lambda101 Theodoridis), and in
scholia on
Homer,
Iliad 17.572 and 19.316; cf. also
lambda 129.
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.24.9-10, in the collection of
Epigrams attributed to the lyric poet
Simonides of Ceos (ca. 556 BC-468 BCE), no. 183, lines 9-10; cf. under
gamma 192 and
eta 304. For
Simonides, see generally
sigma 439,
sigma 440,
sigma 441. The 'old man', the lyric poet
Anacreon, ca. 570-ca 485 BCE, a near contemporary of
Simonides, became a legend in his lifetime. See
alpha 1916.
Reference:
Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, The Poetics of Imitation: Anacreon and the anacreontic tradition (Cambridge, 1992) 12-49
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; imagery; poetry
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 17 May 2009@21:27:47.
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