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Headword:
*lipara/
Adler number: lambda,575
Translated headword: oily, sleek
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to] the anchovy.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "if anyone, having flattered you, should call
Athens 'oily,' he would obtain the whole thing [...] having attached [to you] the honor of anchovies."[2] And elsewhere: "the matter of the city is oily." That is, rich.[3]
*lipara/: h( a)fu/h. *)aristofa/nhs: ei) tis u(ma=s u(poqwpeu/sas lipara\s kale/seie ta\s *)aqh/nas, eu(=re to\ pa=n a)/n, a)fu/wn timh\n peria/yas. kai\ au)=qis: liparo\n to\ xrh=ma th=s po/lews. toute/sti plousi/a.
Notes:
[1]
alpha 4660.
[2] An approximation (and abbreviation) of
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 639-640, with
scholia (already at
theta 433). Alluding to the lines of
Pindar (fr. 76),
*)=w tai\ liparai\ kai\ i)oste/fanoi kai\ a)oi/dimoi, *(ella/dos e)/reisma, kleinai\ *)aqa=nai, daimo/nion ptoli/eqron.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Birds 826, with
scholia. "The matter of the city" is an idiomatic periphrasis for, simply, "the city": see generally LSJ s.v.
xrh=ma, II.3.
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 3 June 2009@22:32:40.
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