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Headword:
*)oli/gon
Adler number: omicron,158
Translated headword: little
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] instead of not at all, in
Homer. "Indeed he [Tydeus] begot a child little like to him."[1]
And [sc. attested is]
o)li/gon meaning more quietly. "He speaks softly to the maiden and asks to drink."[2]
And [it is used] instead of small.[3] "And a libation mixed in a little cup."[4]
*)oli/gon: a)nti\ tou= ou)do/lws, par' *(omh/rw|. h)= o)li/gon oi( pai=da e)oiko/ta gei/nato. kai\ *)oli/gon, a)nti\ tou= h(suxai/teron. o( de\ o)li/gon fqe/ggetai pro\s th\n ko/rhn, kai\ ai)tei= piei=n. kai\ a)nti\ tou= mikra/. kai\ spondh\n o)li/gh| kirname/nhn ku/liki.
Notes:
[1]
Homer,
Iliad 5.800 with scholion D; cf.
omicron 165,
pi 816.
[2]
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr. 80 Habrich.
[3] cf.
Hesychius omicron550,
Etymologicum Magnum 621.41.
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.251.4 (Philip); with meager offerings, seafarers pray to Apollo for a fair wind to Actium (see
epsilon 947 note); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 300-303); (vol. II, 335); and further excerpts from this epigram at
alphaiota 274,
beta 527,
delta 126, and
chi 205.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
Keywords: children; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; gender and sexuality; mythology; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 November 2009@00:32:00.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 26 November 2009@03:53:50.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 24 June 2013@05:07:58.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 30 December 2020@17:28:07.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 29 November 2022@22:35:08.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.4) on 30 November 2022@16:57:50.
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