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Headword: *skwpto/lai
Adler number: sigma,689
Translated headword: jokers
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] people fond of scoffing.[1] "[...] jokers and brutes all -- and they [= the people of Tarsos] were more interested in their linens than Athenians were in wisdom."[2]
Greek Original:
*skwpto/lai: filoskw/mmones. skwpto/lai te kai\ u(bristai\ pa/ntes, kai\ dedw/kasi th=| o)qo/nh| ma=llon h)\ sofi/a| *)aqhnai=oi.
Notes:
Adler reports that this entry is lacking in ms A and placed after omicron 664 in FV; she regards it as an interpolation.
[1] The nominative plural headword is presumably taken from the quotation given; cf. generally sigma 688.
[2] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.7; quoted also at omicron 80, and more fully at epsilon 3504.
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 October 2009@20:01:08.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 27 October 2009@04:11:28.
David Whitehead on 30 December 2013@04:02:29.
Catharine Roth (tweaked cross-reference) on 8 March 2022@00:48:48.
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