Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for alpha,2518 in Adler number:
Headword:
*)anqosmi/as
Adler number: alpha,2518
Translated headword: flower-smelling, redolent of flowers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to a] wine of fine bouquet.[1]
[Meaning] fragrant. From a place [called] Anthosmion;[2] or as if from a type of vine, or [meaning] sweet and fragrant and flowery.
Anthosmias, [referring to a] wine of fine bouquet, with the flower and the scent included in [it]. By derivation
anthosmios [sc. gives rise to]
anthosmias; they used to call coarse wine headache-inducing.[3]
Aristophanes in
Frogs [writes]: "Dionysus, you're drinking a wine which does not have a fine bouquet."[4] Meaning you are drunk, you are hungover, from drinking harsh wine.[5]
anthos is also said to be white hair, hence
phalanthos, a bald patch, a bald pate.[6]
*)anqosmi/as: eu)w/dhs oi)=nos. eu)/osmos. a)po\ to/pou *)anqosmi/ou: h)\ w(s a)po\ ei)/dous a)mpe/lou, h)\ h(du\s kai\ peri/osmos kai\ a)nqhro/s. *)anqosmi/as, eu)w/dhs oi)=nos, e)gkeime/nou tou= a)/nqous kai\ th=s o)smh=s. paragw/gws *)anqo/smios, *)anqosmi/as: to\n de\ xudai=on oi)=non karhbari/thn e)/legon. *)aristofa/nhs *batra/xois: *dio/nuse, pi/neis oi)=non ou)k a)nqosmi/an. a)nti\ tou= mequ/eis, kraipala=|s, sklhro\n oi)=non pi/nwn. *)/anqos le/getai kai\ h( leukh\ qri/c, e)/nqen kai\ fa/lanqos, o( falakro/s.
Notes:
cf. generally
Xenophon,
Hellenica 6.2.6.
[1] Similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha1964 Theodoridis.
[2] No such place is attested; in any case this line of explanation is an unnecessary attempt to parallel
alpha 1268,
alpha 2506, etc.
[3] cf.
kappa 382; also
kappa 377 and
kappa 378.
[4]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1150 (web address 1), with scholion.
[5] Dover (below) 334 regards it as uncertain whether this is the correct explanation; an alternative would be "you stink".
[6] cf.
phi 41.
Aristophanes, Frogs, edited with introduction and commentary by K.J. Dover (Oxford 1993)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; medicine
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 July 2000@13:05:41.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search