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Headword:
Thrupsis
Adler number: theta,520
Translated headword: softness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] laziness.
"[...] so that he would beautify his face and employ a barbarians' softness."[1]
"Both of them were beautiful and big; the young one [was] in the prime of life, certainly not dandified, but looking noble."[2]
And
Aristophanes [writes]: "o my gold-adorned darling, offspring of Kypris, honey-bee of the Muses, crumb of the Graces, living picture of daintiness, open up!"[3]
Thrupsis: hê blakeia. hina kallôpisêtai kai thrupsei chrêsêtai barbarôn. êstên de kalô kai megalô: hôraios de ho neos, ou tethrummenos mên, alla gennikon horôn. kai Aristophanês: ô chrusodaidalton emon melêma, Kupridos ernos, melitta mousês, Charitôn thrumma, truphês prosôpon, anoixon.
Notes:
As often in the Suda, the entry includes cognates of the headword; and cf.
theta 519,
theta 521.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable.
[2]
Aelian fr. 73d Domingo-Forasté (70 Hercher); cf.
pi 2483.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 972-974, where
qre/mma ('nurseling') appears in place of
qru/mma ('crumb') here and in
chi 127; cf.
delta 108.
Translated by: Nicholas Wilshere on 20 November 2002@06:35:53.
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