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Headword: Megarikai Sphinges
Adler number: mu,385
Translated headword: Megarian Sphinxes
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Whores have been called this.[1] And perhaps that is why softies were named sfi/gktai.[2] Or even from Maia being called this in Megara.[3]
"But we have some Megarian contrivance." Meaning a rascally one. For the Megarians used to be slandered for [their] rascality.[4]
Greek Original:
Megarikai Sphinges: hai pornai houtôs eirêntai. isôs de enteuthen kai sphinktai hoi malakoi ônomasthêsan. ê kai apo Maias houtô legomenês en Megarois. all' estin hêmin Megarikê tis mêchanê. anti tou ponêra. dieballonto gar epi ponêriai hoi Megareis.
Notes:
[1] Diogenianus 6.35, etc.
[2] So e.g. Cratinus fr. 446 Kock (now 495 K.-A.).
[3] Presumably the nymph Maia, mother of Hermes (epsilon 3037).
[4] cf. alpha 1081.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery; mythology; proverbs; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 January 2007@10:16:34.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added keyword, set status) on 22 January 2007@10:42:11.
David Whitehead (added missing note number) on 23 January 2007@03:01:27.
David Whitehead on 13 May 2013@09:17:02.
David Whitehead on 3 January 2015@08:37:34.
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