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Headword:
Charision
Adler number: chi,121
Translated headword: favor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] thank-offering.
"Let these things be recorded in my name, [sc. as one] rendering small favors in return for great."[1]
Also [sc. attested is]
xari/sioi ["favor-cakes"], a type of cake.
Aristophanes [writes] in
Banqueters: "I will send favor-cakes to concubines in the evenings."[2]
Greek Original:Charision: charistêrion. tauta anagegraphthô moi, charisia oliga anti pollôn apodidonti. kai Charisioi, plakountos eidos. Aristophanês Daitaleusi: pempsô pallakais hesperas charisious.
Notes:
[1]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 349 Zintzen (216 Asmus); quoted at much greater length at
alpha 4174.
[2] A mangled version of
Aristophanes fr. 202 Kock, now 211 Kassel-Austin. See also
alpha 2082, which reads
plakou=ntas ("cakes") for this entry's unmetrical
pallakai=s ("to concubines").
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 March 2008@23:01:56.
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