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Headword:
*magw/tera
Adler number: mu,26
Translated headword: more magically
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning more enchantingly.[1] In the Epigrams: "but [Philaenion is] more curly-haired than parsley and more tender-skinned than down and more magically-speaking than the cestus [sc. of Aphrodite]."[2]
Greek Original:*magw/tera: a)nti\ tou= qelktikw/tera. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)lla\ seli/nwn ou)lote/rh kai\ mnou= xrw=ta tereinote/rh kai\ kestou= fwneu=sa magw/tera.
Notes:
[1] The headword is neuter nominative/accusative comparative of
ma/gos (
mu 25,
mu 28), an adjective here used -- as also is the gloss -- adverbially.
[2]
Greek Anthology 5.121.1-3 (Philodemos); quoted also at
kappa 1428,
mu 1175. For the cestus see, besides
kappa 1428,
kappa 1427.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 June 2008@11:39:57.
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