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Headword:
*lignu/s
Adler number: lambda,502
Translated headword: murky flame
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the sending up of smoke.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "murky flame will burn to ashes your body and the enfolding walls of your palace with Licymnian bolts". This
Licymnius burned down some people's houses. And there is a play of
Euripides [called]
Licymnius.[2]
*lignu/s: h( a)na/dosis tou= kapnou=. *)aristofa/nhs: lignu\s de\ sw=ma kai\ do/mwn periptuxa\s kataiqalw/sei *likumni/aisi bolai=s. ou(=tos o( *liku/mnios e)nepu/rise/ tinwn oi)ki/as. kai\ dra=ma/ e)stin *eu)ripi/dou *liku/mnios.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and in diverse
scholia: see the references at
Photius lambda301 Theodoridis.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 1241-2, with scholion.
Licymnius was an uncle of Heracles.
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 3 June 2009@22:07:56.
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