*flhnafa=|: fluarei=.
The headword as transmitted is the present indicative (and subjunctive) active, third person singular, of the contract verb
flhnafa/w, "I chatter"; see generally LSJ s.v. The Suda follows the entry in
Photius (phi222 Theodoridis); see also
Hesychius phi605 (where there is a second glossing synonym,
mwrologei=) and, more broadly, the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 664, where
e)flhna/fa occurs (web address 1).
Theodoridis does not mention (as Adler had) the complication introduced by another Aristophanic passage,
Clouds 1475 (web address 2): this in most mss has the second person singular present active imperative
flhna/fa, though with the variant
flhna/fei in two, and in the more recent
scholia that variant is glossed with
flua/rei, as here; see n. 1 below. It must therefore be a possibility that
Clouds 1475 lies behind the present entry.
See also
phi 535: the related forms
flh/nafos and
flhnafi/a.
[1] The gloss is the present indicative active, third person singular, of the contract verb
fluare/w, "I babble"; see LSJ s.v. and cf.
phi 548.
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