Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for lambda,54 in Adler number:
Headword:
*lakide/as
Adler number: lambda,54
Translated headword: Laodikeians, Laodiceans
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the Epigrams:[1] "avoid the asp, the toad, the serpent, and Laodikeans."
Greek Original:*lakide/as: e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)spi/da, fru=non, o)/fin kai\ *lakide/as peri/feuge.
Notes:
[1] No: actually quoted at the beginning of
Synesius'
Letter 127 (to his brother). The present headword, extracted from it, is accusative plural. Here it has been transmitted as La(o)kideans, but see more fully at
lambda 854,
phi 768, and the
Synesius passage itself (which goes on to mention 'Euthalios the Laodikean'). See the translation of A. Fitzgerald at web address 1.
The Barrington Atlas lists seven Near- or Middle-eastern cities called
Laodikeia/Laodicea; for two of them see also OCD(3) s.v. Laodicea.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; poetry; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 June 2006@05:34:10.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search