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Headword:
*polu/qronon
Adler number: pi,1967
Translated headword: many-charmed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] many-drugged.[1] For flowers [are called]
qro/na.
Homer [writes]: "and [she] fashioned many flowers on it."[2] [The word] is also applied to a scoundrel.
*polu/qronon: polufa/rmakon. qro/na ga\r ta\ a)/nqh. *(/omhros: e)n de\ qro/na poiki/l' e)/passe. ta/ttetai de\ kai\ e)pi\ tou= panou/rgou.
Notes:
[1] i.e. having many drugs. Adler suggests (and Wendel [below] p. 43 agrees) that this may be a gloss on
Callimachus (
Hecale fr.364: contextless, so could be either masculine/feminine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular). The neuter nominative/accusative plural appears with an equivalent gloss in a scholion on
Nicander,
Theriaca 875. And see generally LSJ s.v.
poluqro/nios (sic).
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 22.441 (web address 1), with scholion.
Carl Wendel, review of Adler Part IV and Part V: Gnomon 15 (1939): 42-46.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; medicine; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 May 2008@15:55:11.
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