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Headword:
*qru/yis
Adler number: theta,520
Translated headword: softness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] laziness.
"[...] so that he would beautify his face and employ a barbarians' softness."[1]
"Both of them were beautiful and big; the young one [was] in the prime of life, certainly not dandified, but looking noble."[2]
And
Aristophanes [writes]: "o my gold-adorned darling, offspring of Kypris, honey-bee of the Muses, crumb of the Graces, living picture of daintiness, open up!"[3]
*qru/yis: h( blakei/a. i(/na kallwpi/shtai kai\ qru/yei xrh/shtai barba/rwn. h)/sthn de\ kalw\ kai\ mega/lw: w(rai=os de\ o( ne/os, ou) teqrumme/nos mh/n, a)lla\ genniko\n o(rw=n. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: w)= xrusodai/dalton e)mo\n me/lhma, *ku/pridos e)/rnos, me/litta mou/shs, *xari/twn qru/mma, trufh=s pro/swpon, a)/noicon.
Notes:
As often in the Suda, the entry includes cognates of the headword; and cf.
theta 519,
theta 521.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable.
[2]
Aelian fr. 73d Domingo-Forasté (70 Hercher); cf.
pi 2483.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 972-974, where
qre/mma ('nurseling') appears in place of
qru/mma ('crumb') here and in
chi 127; cf.
delta 108.
Translated by: Nicholas Wilshere on 20 November 2002@06:35:53.
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