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Headword:
Apanthêsanta
Adler number: alpha,2896
Translated headword: having faded, having withered
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] having dried-up. "I am most happy, I who have anointed my head with good ointments [...] For they stay on the head a long time. The others, once having faded, all fly away."
Aristophanes says [this].[1]
For
a)panqw= [means] I throw off.
And the Theologian [writes]: "of those out of type to the faded."[2]
But
a)panqi/zw [means] I gather flowers.[3]
Apanthêsanta: xêranthenta. makariôtatê egô, hêtis memurômai tên kephalên murômasin agathoisin. en têi kephalêi gar emmenei polun chronon. ta d' all' apanthêsanta pant' apeptato. Aristophanês phêsin. Apanthô gar to apoballô. kai ho Theologos: tôn ek genous tois apanthêsasin. Apanthizô de to ta anthê sullegô.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is neuter plural of this aorist passive participle; cf.
alpha 3169.
[1] A compressed (and initially garbled) version of
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 1113-1121, the last of these lines being the significant one for present purposes. See web address 1 (and again at
mu 581).
[2] Gregory of Nazianzus PG 35,993c.
[3] Amongst other things: see LSJ s.v.
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; Christianity; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 November 2000@07:42:51.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; modified and augmented notes; added keyword) on 14 March 2001@04:08:23.
David Whitehead on 14 March 2001@04:11:16.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; restorative cosmetics) on 16 August 2002@08:51:25.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Corrected typo; added betacode; added keyword) on 1 October 2005@17:38:59.
David Whitehead (added primary note and another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 22 March 2012@08:21:51.
David Whitehead on 2 August 2015@09:00:27.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 13 September 2015@01:35:17.
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