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Headword: Thelgei
Adler number: theta,103
Translated headword: enchants, cheats, convinces
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] loves, or mistreats, obscures, darkens, or deceives, or inflames.[1]
To enchant is properly to lead [a)/gein] someone to that for which he/she wishes [qe/lei]. From this also [comes] qelkth/ria ["enchantments"], songs, from a bard enchanting those listening to songs and leading [them] into pleasure. And Telchines are a kind of sorcerers [qelxi=nes];[2] for, he says,[3] begrudging the waters their nature they used to make the sprouts dry, while keeping the plants to themselves [4].
Greek Original:
Thelgei: agapai, ê kakoi, amauroi, skotoi, ê apatai, ê thalpei. Thelgein de kuriôs esti to eis ho thelei tis agein tina. hothen kai thelktêria, ta aismata, apo tôn ôidôn tous akouontas thelgein kai agein eis terpsin ton aoidon. kai Telchines thelchines tines eisi: ta gar thallonta, phêsi, baskainontes tois hudasi tês phuseôs aua epoioun heôs phutôn baskainontes.
Notes:
[1] The headword is third person singular, present indicative active, of qe/lgw. Same or similar glossing in Photius, Hesychius, and other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and in scholia on Homer, Iliad 24.343 (where it occurs) and Odyssey 5.47; also a scholion on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.27. See also kappa 548.
[2] See tau 293 (and LSJ s.v.: web address 1).
[3] It is not clear who 'he' is.
[4] The meaning of the last phrase is obscure; the text may be corrupt.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; meter and music; mythology; poetry
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 26 February 2008@11:56:46.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweaks) on 26 February 2008@22:32:00.
Catharine Roth (tweaked notes and link, set status) on 27 February 2008@01:14:33.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 27 February 2008@03:43:30.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 31 December 2012@04:40:29.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 1 January 2013@02:08:55.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 21 January 2015@02:05:12.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, added a note) on 15 October 2018@01:24:10.

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