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Headword:
*fhlou=n
Adler number: phi,266
Translated headword: to cheat
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to deceive.[1]
Menander in
Fisherman [writes]: "cheating two houses of foolish, as you say, old men."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the participle]
fhlwqei=sa ["she who was cheated"], meaning she who was deceived. In the
Fables: "a swift young hind who was cheated of her profits."[3]
From this wild figs [are called]
fh/lhkes, those which are ripe in appearance.[4]
*fhlou=n: a)pata=n. *me/nandros *(aliei=: du/' oi)ki/as fhlw=n gero/ntwn, w(s le/geis, a)belte/rwn. kai\ *fhlwqei=sa, a)nti\ tou= e)capathqei=sa. e)n *mu/qois: ke/rdesi fhlwqei=sa qoh\ kema/s. e)/nqen kai\ fh/lhkes ta\ a)/gria su=ka, ta\ th=| dei/cei pe/peira.
Notes:
[1] cf.
phi 268.
[2]
Menander fr. 17 Kock (21 K.-A.).
[3] Fragment of dactylic fable, included in appendix to Crusius' edition of
Babrius, p. 217.
[4] Already at
phi 263; cf.
phi 264.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 January 2002@01:40:31.
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