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Headword:
Adônia
Adler number: alpha,515
Translated headword: Adonia, Adonis-mourning
Vetting Status: high
Translation: With a short vowel [sc. in the penultimate syllable]. "We hold the Adonia and we weep for Adonis."
Pherecrates [sc. writes this].[1] They also call the image of Adonis, in this way, an Adonion.
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] Adonideian crop,[2] [meaning] that of Adonis.
Adônia: sunestalmenôs. Adônian agomen kai ton Adônin klaomen. Pherekratês. kalousi de kai to eidôlon tou Adônidos houtôs Adônion. kai Adônideios karpos, tou Adônidos.
Notes:
Photius, Lexicon alpha400 has a superior version of the first part of this entry: there the headword is
*)adw/nia, not the Suda's
*)adwni/a, and this is reflected in the more accurate quotation of
Pherecrates. See also
Photius' alpha401, which confirms the sense of the initial gloss here.
[1]
Pherecrates fr. 170 Kock, now 181 K.-A.
[2] See
alpha 514 and the note there.
Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mythology; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2001@00:33:41.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; augmented notes; added keywords) on 20 March 2001@06:42:36.
David Whitehead (modified beginning of tr; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 11 January 2012@07:51:34.
David Whitehead on 26 December 2014@04:36:53.
Catharine Roth (tweaked betacode) on 15 May 2018@01:55:14.
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