[Meaning] jealousies.[1] "[She is] giving up parties and the rivalries of youths and the scratches of lovers[2] and the initiation lamp".[3]
*zhlw/mata: zhlotupi/as. kw/mous kai\ ta\ ne/wn zhlw/mata kai\ ta\ poqeu/ntwn kni/smata kai\ mu/sthn lu/xnon a)peipame/nh.
[1] Accusative plurals, the headword one presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2] This word
poqeu/ntwn is a Doric form of the present participle (here genitive plural) of
poqe/w; it occurs in
Theocritus, the poetic model in this case.
[3]
Greek Anthology 7.219.5-6 (
Pompeius the Younger); cf.
kappa 1878,
lambda 392,
chi 585. The subject is a woman, Lais, "fallen in a due sleep" (line 4). Perhaps this is Lais the legendary courtesan of ancient Greece who was active in Corinth (see
epsilon 3266) and, according to
Timaeus (FGrH 566 F24a), was murdered by jealous women in Thessaly in the temple of Aphrodite.
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