[sc. Someone] snatching eagerly at the dishes,[1] insatiable, gobbling, overeating.[2]
Aelian [writes]: "a man fattening his gluttonous and licentious eye with evil entertainment thirsted to witness the rites of Pherekratte although he was uninitiated."[3]
*li/xnos: proapto/menos tw=n o)/ywn, katepiqumw=n, limbo/s, lai/- margos. *ai)liano/s: a)nh\r li/xnon o)/mma kai\ a)selge\s piai/nwn kakh=| e(stia/sei ta\ th=s *ferekra/tths o)/rgia e)di/yhse qea/sasqai a)te/lestos w)/n.
[1] This gloss appears in a scholion to Lucian,
How to Write History 57, where the related noun
lixnei/a occurs; cf.
lambda 631.
[2] Thus far (including the first gloss) =
Synagoge lambda126,
Photius lambda367 Theodoridis; cf.
Hesychius lambda1178.
[3]
Aelian fr. 46a Domingo-Forasté (43 Hercher). Pherekratte is probably a slip for the name of the goddess Pherephatte (Persephone); cf.
pi 1560, where the same quotation occurs with the reading Pherephatte. If it is not an error it could conceivably be yet another form (otherwise unattested) for the goddess's name, or a play on a name of an otherwise unknown courtesan or on the comic poet
Pherekrates. [Adler reports that Ms M as well as correctors to mss AG offer
*ferekra/ths (
Pherekrates); in the context this could only be the genitive singular form of a feminine name Pherekrate, which is morphologically unlikely.]
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