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Headword: *ge/lwn
Adler number: gamma,113
Translated headword: Gelon
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Proper name.[1] But ge/lwn [sc. is also an alternative for] ge/lwta.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "I am laughing at you." Interpretation of a dream: if you laugh in your sleep you will have hard turns.[3]
Greek Original:
*ge/lwn: o)/noma ku/rion. *ge/lwn de\ to\n ge/lwta. kai\ *gelw= se. lu/sis o)nei/rou: gelw=n kaq' u(/pnous dusfo/rous e(/ceis tro/pous.
Notes:
[1] That of a brilliantly successful Sicilian tyrant in the early C5 BC. See generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.607).
[2] That is, a variant form of the accusative case of the noun ge/lws, laughter.
[3] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychus (alpha 4251); cf. kappa 138.
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Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 18 October 2001@21:04:57.
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