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Headword:
*surfeto/s
Adler number: sigma,1672
Translated headword: sweepings, refuse
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] beggarly crowd, or a [sc. beggarly] word; or dung gathered-together by a wind, and like dry sticks.[1] Or dust with dung. But some [say it means] a storm and sweeping motion.[2]
"But these things [are] unknown to the refuse."[3]
Greek Original:*surfeto/s: a)gurtw/dhs o)/xlos, h)\ lo/gos: h)\ e)c a)ne/mou sullegome/nh ko/pros, kai\ fruganw/dhs. h)/toi koniorto\s meta\ kopri/wn. tine\s de\ xeimw\n kai\ surmo/s. tau=ta de\ a)/gnwsta tw=| surfetw=|.
Notes:
cf. generally
sigma 1671.
[1] Likewise in other lexica (references at
Photius sigma836 Theodoridis); similarly already in a scholion on
Plato,
Gorgias 489C (where the headword occurs) and
Hesychius sigma2793.
[2] From a scholion on
Plato,
Theaetetus 152C (where the dative case occurs).
[3] Julian,
Oration 5.173a.
J. Bidez, La tradition manuscrite et les éditions des discours de l'empereur Julien (Paris 1929) 24
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 June 2014@19:46:30.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (x-ref; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 8 June 2014@05:04:23.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 8 June 2014@10:58:39.
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