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Headword: *kwti/lh
Adler number: kappa,2303
Translated headword: babbling, chattering, prattling
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] she who is beguiling with words.
Also [sc. attested is the masculine] kw/tilos, [meaning] a knave, or a flatterer, one cheating.
"But quenched were the chattering charms, and the twang with a song."[1]
And David has used chattering words when trying to deceive; for he says: "they were praising with their mouth and they were cursing in their heart".[2]
Greek Original:
*kwti/lh: h( lo/gois a)patw=sa, kai\ *kwti/los, panou=rgos, h)\ ko/lac, a)patew/n. e)sbe/sqh de\ ta\ fi/ltra ta\ kwti/la, xw) met' a)oida=s yalmo/s. kai\ *dabi\d kwti/lois ke/xrhtai lo/gois fenaki/sai peirw/menos: fhsi\ ga/r: tw=| sto/mati au)tw=n hu)lo/goun kai\ th=| kardi/a| au)tw=n kathrw=nto.
Notes:
The headword is feminine, and glossed accordingly. It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps a fragment of Anacreon, where it is applied to a swallow. (The glossing in other lexica fits better with that.)
See also kappa 2304.
[1] Greek Anthology 7.221.3-4 (author unknown); cf. lambda 106.
[2] A garbling of Theodoret (PG 80.1332a) on Psalm 61:5 LXX. Th. quotes the psalm first and then glosses it, with the plural participle peirw/menoi (not the Suda's peirw/menos) applying to the quotation itself.
Keywords: Christianity; definition; ethics; meter and music; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 27 June 2003@09:02:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes; augmented keywords) on 27 June 2003@09:35:50.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 25 March 2011@08:33:47.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 25 March 2011@08:34:48.
David Whitehead on 15 March 2013@09:05:34.
David Whitehead (coding) on 2 May 2016@07:08:27.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 18 January 2020@20:18:27.

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