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Headword:
*te/nqais
Adler number: tau,313
Translated headword: gourmands, gnawers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] gluttonous [persons]. For eating [is called] te/nqein. "When the boneless one gnaws its own foot." It should be written with a theta.[1]
Greek Original:*te/nqais: li/xnois. te/nqein ga\r to\ e)sqi/ein. o(/t' a)no/steos o(\n po/da te/nqei. dia\ tou= q grapte/on.
Notes:
From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Peace 1009, where the headword -- dative plural of
te/nqhs -- occurs (web address 1).
[1] Hesiod,
Works and Days 524 (web address 2): cf.
tau 308, where the verb is spelled
te/ndei with a delta.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 December 2012@22:52:16.
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