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Headword:
Mormolukeia
Adler number: mu,1250
Translated headword: fright-masks
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the masks of the tragedians. The masks of actors, which Dorians call gorgia. Whence also [is derived] the [verb] mormolu/casqai, [meaning] to frighten.[1]
"Appearance was the obstacle: a fright-mask of a face and a disruption of thought."[2]
Greek Original:Mormolukeia: ta tôn tragôidôn prosôpeia. ta tôn hupokritôn prosôpeia, ha Dôrieis gorgia kalousin. enthen kai to ekphobêsai mormoluxasthai. dokêsis ên to antimachon, mormolukeion opseôs kai dianoias kataplêxis.
Notes:
For the neuter headword, here in the plural (probably quoted from
Aristophanes), see generally LSJ s.v., which notes a primary sense of 'bogey, hobgoblin' besides the one illusrated here.
[1] For
gorgia see
gamma 389. This material also occurs in other lexica (see the references at
Photius mu530 Theodoridis), and various
scholia (notably to
Plato,
Axiochus 364B).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 6.5.7.
Translated by: Richard Rodriguez on 2 June 2009@03:57:29.
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