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Headword: *priamwqh=nai
Adler number: pi,2273
Translated headword: to have been Priamized
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to have had one's head shaved; for the [sc. on-stage] character of Priam is shaven-headed.
Greek Original:
*priamwqh=nai: curhqh=nai: to\ ga\r tou= *pria/mou pro/swpon curi/as e)sti/.
Notes:
Same or similar material in other lexica (references at Photius pi1162 Theodoridis) -- all generated, apparently, by an unattributable comic fragment (1123 Kock, 414 K.-A.) where someone says 'I am about to be Priamized'.
For Priam see generally pi 2274; for shaving cf. xi 156, xi 157, xi 158, xi 160, xi 161, xi 162.
Keywords: clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mythology; stagecraft; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 April 2003@06:57:18.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 10 August 2004@23:51:00.
David Whitehead (more x-refs) on 11 August 2004@04:08:54.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords) on 2 November 2011@10:54:53.
David Whitehead on 14 October 2013@05:11:04.
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