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Headword:
*qalfqh=|
Adler number: theta,33
Translated headword: it be softened
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It be deceived by the manoeuvring of the words, it be enticed.
Aristophanes [writes]: "[the serpent is] now to overpower [the leather-eagle], unless it be softened with words."[1]
Also [sc. attested is] 'being softened', [meaning] being deceived.[2]
*qalfqh=|: e)capathqh=| th=| tw=n lo/gwn peridromh=|, deleasqh=|. *)aristofa/nhs: h)/dh krath/sein, ai)/ke mh\ qalfqh=| lo/gois. kai\ *qalpo/menoi, e)capatw/menoi.
Notes:
The headword (extracted from the quotation given) is aorist passive subjunctive, third person singular, of
qa/lpw ('warm', 'melt', 'soften':
theta 27). Also glossed in the entry is the present middle/passive participle, masculine nominative plural, of the same verb.
[1] From the mock-oracle in
Aristophanes,
Knights 210 (web address 1), with scholion. The 'leather-eagle' is Kleon (
kappa 1731), here to be politically eclipsed by the seller of serpent-shaped sausages.
[2] See already
theta 26 (q.v.).
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 March 2008@09:36:03.
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