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Headword:
*fe/yalos
Adler number: phi,239
Translated headword: ember
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
*fe/yalos] and
feya/luc: [sc. both mean a] spark, flying up out of the burning timbers.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "but not even an ember is left of a seducer." As if [to say] a hot coal, a spark. But the Milesians are being reproached as seducers.[2]
Greek Original:*fe/yalos kai\ *feya/luc: spinqh/r, o( a)nafero/menos e)k tw=n kaiome/nwn cu/lwn. *)aristofa/nhs: a)ll' ou)de\ moixou= katale/leiptai feya/luc. oi(=on zwpu/rhma, spinqh/r. diaba/llontai de\ w(s moixoi\ oi( *milh/sioi.
Notes:
See also
phi 240.
[1] Same or similar material in other lexica (references at
Photius phi124 Theodoridis), and cf.
scholia on
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 668 (where
fe/yalos occurs).
[2]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 107 (using
feya/luc), with scholion. The Milesians are mentioned in the following line; cf.
omicron 169.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 October 2011@01:46:23.
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