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Headword:
*palamnai=os
Adler number: pi,46
Translated headword: violent man
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] murderer, or one polluted [sc. by blood-guiltiness].[1] For those who commit homicide with their [sc. bare] hands are called
palamnaioi from
palamê ["palm of the hand"]. Also [sc. attested is] Zeus Palamnaios, the one who punishes such men; and Prostropaios, he who turns the pollution upon them.[2]
Babrius [writes]: "'the scoundrel,' he said, 'I [do not] fear the mouse, lest he bite my skin as he flees; but he was going to soil my mane.'" The lion says [this] about a mouse.[3]
And elsewhere: "[they] seemed to be not human beings but some kind of violent demons."[4]
Aelian [writes]: "before the engagement with the enemy, as he saw that his people were perishing, that violent man dared to quench the evil with a greater evil; indeed he bids them cut the wretched maiden in two."[5]
*palamnai=os: foneu/s, h)\ miaro/s. palamnai=oi ga\r le/gontai oi( dia\ xeiro\s a)ndrofonou=ntes, para\ th\n pala/mhn. kai\ *zeu\s *palamnai=os, o( tou\s toiou/tous timwrou/menos: kai\ *prostropai=os, o( prostre/pwn to\ a)/gos au)toi=s. *ba/brios: ou)xi\ to\n mu=n ei)=pen, h( palamnai/a, de/doika mh/ mou th\n dora\n da/kh| feu/gwn: xai/thn d' e)/melle th\n e)mh\n kataisxu/nein. o( le/wn fhsi\ peri\ muo/s. kai\ au)=qis: ou)k a)/nqrwpoi e)/docan ei)=nai a)lla\ dai/mones palamnai=oi/ tines. *ai)liano/s: o( de\ pro\ th=s e)s tou\s polemi/ous sumplokh=s, w(s ei)=den a)pollu/meno/n oi( to\n lew/n, e)netolmh/sato kako\n kakw=| mei/zoni o( palamnai=os a)/ra e)kei=nos sbe/sai. prosta/ttei gou)=n th\n a)/qlion parqe/non di/xa temei=n.
Notes:
The first paragraph of this entry comes from
Photius,
Lexicon pi57 Theodoridis; similar material elsewhere.
[1] LSJ entry at web address 1.
[2] Zeus Palamnaios is also attested in
Aristotle,
Polybius and elsewhere: see LSJ. For [Zeus?] Prostropaios cf. generally
pi 2828,
pi 2829,
pi 2830.
[3]
Babrius 82.6-8 (manuscript reading differs); cf.
phi 718,
epsilon 449,
phi 644. A fox is ridiculing the lion for being afraid of the mouse.
[4]
Procopius,
Secret History 12.14 (web address 2), on Justinian (cf.
iota 446) and Theodora; cf. Kaldellis (58). On the demonic nature of Justinian see also
alpha 1259,
delta 806,
epsiloniota 225,
iota 726, and
pi 2088. On Theodora see
alpha 956 note.
[5]
Aelian fr. 53g Domingo-Forasté (50 Hercher); cf.
epsilon 1270 and
kappa 169.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; military affairs; mythology; poetry; religion; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 July 2001@13:52:31.
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