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Headword:
Phoinikikôn
Adler number: phi,791
Translated headword: Phoenician
Vetting Status: high
Translation: “Freed from battle-lines and Phoenician evils”.[1] [sc. This is said] either because a
phoinikis[2] was a military cloak; or meaning naval evils; for Phoenicians are said to prevail in sea-battles. Or [in the sense of] bloody; from the colour of blood. And
Homer [says]: "the ground was red [
foini/sseto] with blood".[3]
Phoinikikôn: taxeôn apallagentes kai kakôn Phoinikikôn. ê hoti phoinikis chlamus ên polemikê: ê anti tou nautikôn kakôn: Phoinikes gar legontai kratein en tais naumachiais. ê haimatôdôn: apo tês tou haimatos chroias. kai Homêros: phoinisseto d' haimati gaia.
Notes:
The headword, evidently extracted from the Aristophanic quotation given, is a genitive plural.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Peace 303 (web address 1), followed by comment from the
scholia there.
[2] See
Moeris,
Lexicon Atticum s.v. and
phi 788.
[3] A variant of
Homer,
Iliad 10.484: in the standard manuscript tradition the verb is
e)ruqai/neto (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; history; medicine; military affairs; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 31 December 2007@09:05:16.
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