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Headword:
*)obeli/skos
Adler number: omicron,6
Translated headword: spit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also [sc. attested is the diminutive]
o)beli/skos ["small spit"]: [meaning] a skewer.[1]
Xenophon [writes]: "someone from within struck with an ox-piercing spit right through the thigh of the nearest man."[2]
And [there is] a proverb: "the heat of the spit." In reference to those who choose the worse instead of the better.[3]
*)obelo/s: kai\ *)obeli/skos, h( sou/bla. *cenofw=n: e)pa/tacen e)/ndon boupo/rw| tis o)beli/skw| diampere\s to\n mhro\n tou= e)gguta/tw. kai\ paroimi/a: *to\ qermo\n tou= o)belou=. e)pi\ tw=n ta\ xei/rona a)nti\ tw=n kreitto/nwn ai(roume/nwn.
Notes:
[1] cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 613.2. From the non-classical
souvla (used here as the gloss) comes the modern Greek souvlakia.
[2]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 7.8.14 (web address 1).
[3] Again at
tau 734; cf.
Photius s.v.
to\ qermo/n;
Zenobius 6.19.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 October 2002@01:26:27.
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