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Headword:
Sphragis
Adler number: sigma,1757
Translated headword: seal, signet, signet-ring
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
*sfragi/s, genitive]
sfragi=dos:[1] [meaning] that which, through characters, marks the things being guarded.
"Seeing the signet-rings [made] from gold and the bracelets [around] their hands, Tarpeia desired the gold".[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related compound]
sfragidonuxargokomh/tas ["ring-nail-lazy-longhairs"], [meaning men] adorned with hair and superfluous rings on their fingers, covering their fingers with rings as far as the nails. Or also/even those who take excessive care of their nails, cutting them on a daily basis to make them shine; something that only those with leisure endure, in the name of beautification.
Aristophanes in Clouds [sc. uses this word].[3]
Sphragis, sphragidos: to episêmainon dia charaktêrôn ta phulattomena. horôsa hê Tarpêïa sphragidas apo chrusou kai pselia tais chersin epethumêse tou chrusou. kai Sphragidonuchargokomêtas, tous komais kai perittois daktuliois tas cheiras kosmoumenous mechri tôn onuchôn hupo tôn daktuliôn skepesthai tous daktulous. ê kai tous tôn onuchôn, epimeloumenous kai hosêmerai xeontas autous tou eklampein agan: ho paschousin hoi tôi kallôpizein scholazontes monon. Aristophanês Nephelais.
Notes:
[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
[2] Adler's note credits this quotation either (following Sylburg) to
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 2.38.3, or (following de Boor) to Appian. However, the wording is insufficiently close to that
Dionysius passage, and Favuzzi [see under
alpha 1596] 196 does not even mention it; he argues instead that the phraseology of the extract -- into which, before
tai=s xersi/n, he would insert
peri/ (as, twice, in
Xenophon) -- points to Appian. For Tarpeia see generally
tau 127.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 332 (accusative plural there, as again here), with scholion.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 June 2013@10:04:03.
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