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Headword:
*numfi/ou
bi/on
Adler number: nu,597
Translated headword: bridegroom's life
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverb.[1] "You then are living a bridegroom's life." For those [men] getting married used to be garlanded with bergamot-mints and certain [sc. other] plants to mark the days of their weddings.
Greek Original:*numfi/ou bi/on: paroimi/a. u(mei=s me\n a)/ra zh=te numfi/ou bi/on. oi( ga\r gamou=ntes e)ste/fonto sisu/mbrois kai\ futoi=s tisi pro\s ta\s tw=n ga/mwn h(me/ras.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Birds 161 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia; cf.
sigma 275,
sigma 485,
upsilon 107.
[1] Not independently attested as such, as Dunbar notes (but NB elsewhere in the Suda Aristophanic quotations are so characterised).
Reference:
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; ethics; gender and sexuality; proverbs; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 December 2003@08:48:49.
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