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Headword: *sese/llisai
Adler number: sigma,259
Translated headword: you have Sellus-ized
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning] you have become foolishly elated. [sc. The word comes] from Aeschines the son of Sellus, who was a braggart and boastful both in engaging in conversation in pretending to be wealthy. But Lycophron has rendered selli/zesqai ['to Sellus-ize'] in place of yelli/zesqai ['to mumble'].[1]
For Aeschines, although he was poor, gave himself airs for wealth, saying that he was a rich man. Aeschines was the son of Sellus. As a metaphor they used to call such people Selluses and being boastful 'Sellus-izing'.[2]

Greek Original:

*sese/llisai: ma/thn e)ph=rsai. a)po\ *ai)sxi/nou tou= *se/llou, o(\s h)=n kompasth\s kai\ a)lazw\n e)/n te tw=| diale/gesqai kai\ e)n tw=| prospoiei=sqai ploutei=n. *luko/frwn d' a)pe/dwke to\ selli/zesqai a)nti\ tou= yelli/zesqai. o( ga\r *ai)sxi/nhs pe/nhs w)\n e)qru/pteto e)pi\ plou/tw|, le/gwn e(auto\n plou/sion. h)=n de\ *ai)sxi/nhs *se/llou. e)k metafora=s de\ e)/legon tou\s toiou/tous *se/llous kai\ to\ a)lazoneu/esqai selli/zein.

Notes:

The headword is the perfect middle indicative, second person singular, of selli/zw (on which see theta 81 and sigma 210). The only known literary attestation of this form of the verb is in a fragment from the comic playwright Phrynichus (see n. 1).
[1] = Photius sigma151 Theodoridis; identified as commentary on Phrynichus' Kronios (fr. 10 Kock & Kassel-Austin) at Hesychius sigma324. See also Hesychius sigma438. On the reference to Lycophron (fr. 122 Steckers) cf. Herodian, On Orthography 3.2.579.29, Hesychius sigma392.
[2] Derived from commentary on Aristophanes, Birds 823, where this Aeschines (not alphaiota 346 or alphaiota 347) is mentioned, although the headword is not used. See also theta 81, sigma 210.

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Translated by: William Hutton on 20 October 2013@23:48:03.
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David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 21 October 2013@03:34:45.
David Whitehead on 23 December 2013@05:20:47.

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