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Headword:
Athurma
Adler number: alpha,767
Translated headword: plaything
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A children's toy.[1]
Josephus [writes]: "who was a plaything of the king and was exhibited to be teased and laughed at during the drinking sessions".[2]
And elsewhere: "it is not the part of men to linger with playthings of children".[3]
Also in the
Epigrams: "they stripped it and hung it up by the road as a plaything for Pan".[4] Meaning as a delight.
Cratinus in
Odysseuses: "a novel plaything had been introduced".[5]
Athurma: paignion. Iôsêpos. hos ên tou basileôs athurma kai pros ta skômmata kai tous en tois potois gelôtas epedeiknuto. kai authis: ouk estin andrôn athurmasin emphilochôrein paidiôn. kai en Epigrammasi: Pani de min xessantes hodôi epi kalon athurma kat- thesan. anti tou agalma. Kratinos Odusseusi: neochmon parêchthai athurma.
Notes:
The headword is a neuter noun related to
alpha 768 and
alpha 769.
[1] Same glossing in
Photius (
Lexicon alpha492 and alpha493 Theodoridis) and elsewhere.
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish Antiquities 12.212 (web address 1 below) on Tryphon.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable; a proverb?
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.37.3 (on an oak bough).
[5]
Cratinus fr.145 Kock, now 152 K.-A.
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Keywords: biography; botany; children; comedy; daily life; definition; food; historiography; history; imagery; poetry; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 November 2000@00:13:46.
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