[Meaning those children who are] woman-reared, raised by a grandmother.
*thqalladou/s: gunaikotro/fous, u(po\ th/qh| teqramme/nous.
Similarly in
Photius,
Lexicon tau233 Theodoridis (see also tau234), with other references there;
Photius has nominative singulars throughout rather than the Suda's accusative plurals. It seems that the Suda (and later the
Etymologicum Magnum) has misconstrued the -
ous suffix of the headword (quoted from Attic comedy: see below).
LSJ s.v. (web address 1): "nursed by a grandmother, spoilt child, mollycoddle
o)knei=s lalei=n; ou(/tw sfo/dr' ei)= thqalladou=s; Com. Adesp. 17, cf. Poll. 3.20, Phryn.
PSp. 113B., Hdn.Gr. 2.928, Suid.: -- but this interpretation constantly alternates with
mammo/qreptosm as if from
ti/tqh, not
th/qh. — Other forms occur, viz.
thqallwdou=s (
-ammw- cod.) in
Hesychius, cf.
EM 756.31;
thqela=s sch. Ar.
Ach. 49;
thqeladou=s Phryn. 267;
thqalw/dhs Zonar."
Golden (see Bibliography): "Ancient scholars explain the words
thqalladou=s, "granny's boy" (found in Attic comedy) and
mammo/qreptos, "reared by a grandmother" (known only from late sources) as referring to spoiled children." He too cites for
thqalladou=s Comica adespota fr. 17E (cf.
Pollux 3.20;
Eustathius,
Commentary on the Iliad 971.39, and he adds that "A boy in a Roman comedy is said to be fortunate because he has two grandmothers (Plaut.
Truc. 808)."
Golden, Mark. Children and Childhood in Classical Athens. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990
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