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Headword:
*phni/on
Adler number: pi,1531
Translated headword: penion, pupa
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A creature similar to a gnat.
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "they are lying just like a pair of penia screwing."[1] Meaning dry: for he is jeering at Chairephon & co. for dryness and weakness. [sc. Concerning the idea] that it is a kind of gnat,
Speusippus in [book] 12 of the
Similarities[2] says as follows: "penion, flea, gnat."[3]
*phni/on: zw=|on o(/moion kw/nwpi. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: kei/sesqon w(/sper phni/w binoume/nw. a)nti\ tou= chroi/: skw/ptei ga\r tou\s peri\ *xairefw=nta ei)s chro/thta kai\ a)sqe/neian. o(/ti de\ kw/nwpos ei)=do/s e)sti, *speu/sippos e)n tw=| ib# tw=n o(moioth/twn fhsi\n ou(/tws: phni/on, e)mpi/s, kw/nwy.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius pi865 Theodoridis (but see n. 2 below).
For the headword
phni/on in another sense -- that of LSJ s.v., I -- see already
pi 1530. In the present entry it has sense II: "a kind of
pupa, perhaps of
currant-moth".
[1] Not extant in the transmitted text of
Clouds, so presumably from the earlier version -- on which see generally pp. lxxx-xcvii in K.J. Dover's edition, esp. xcv-vii on Chairephon (
chi 158,
chi 159,
chi 160). See in any event
Aristophanes fr. 377 Kock = 393 Kassel-Austin.
[2]
Photius says book 2, which has been preferred.
[3]
Speusippus [
sigma 928] fr. 11 Taran.
Translated by: John Mulhall on 19 July 2011@13:16:58.
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