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Headword:
*)oxeu/w
Adler number: omicron,1037
Translated headword: I copulate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Eat, drink, copulate: since everything else is worth nothing." In other [words], since the other things are not worth this, a snap of the fingers. For the statue standing on his tomb was made having the hands over the head, as if snapping with the fingers, girded in Lydian style, marble in material. Sardanapalos.
Greek Original:*)oxeu/w. e)/sqie, pi=n', o)/xeue: w(s ta/ ge a)/lla ou)deno/s e)stin a)/cia. e)n a)/llois, w(s ta/ ge a)/lla ou) tou/tou e)sti\n a)/cia, tou= tw=n daktu/lwn a)pokroth/matos. to\ ga\r e)festw\s tw=| mnh/mati a)/galma u(pe\r th=s kefalh=s e)/xon ta\s xei=ras pepoi/hto, w(/st' a)\n a)polhkou=n toi=s daktu/lois, a)nezwsme/non *ludisti/, marma/reon th\n u(/lhn. *sardana/palos.
Notes:
FGrHist 124 (Kallisthenes) F34, quoted more fully at
sigma 122; see also
alpha 2032.
cf.
Photius,
Lexicon sigma 80 Theodoridis (s.v.
*sardanapa/lous), and a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Birds 1021, where
*sardana/pallos (
sic) is mentioned (web address 1).
For the verb
o)xeu/w, see also
omicron 1039.
Web address 1
Keywords: art history; biography; clothing; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 31 July 2010@23:10:06.
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