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Headword: *fla=n
Adler number: phi,518
Translated headword: to crush
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to bruise, to beat.[1]
"[...] to crush its own [sc. the wild beast's] most hostile head."[2]
Aristophanes [writes]: "friends are so irksome, those that appear on the spot whenever one fares well: for they nudge you and beat your shins, each one making a case for some favor."[3] Also, "won't you go and be hanged?"[4]
Greek Original:
*fla=n: qla=n, tu/ptein. fla=n th\n e(autou= dusmenesta/thn ka/ran. *)aristofa/nhs: w(s xalepo/n ei)sin oi( fi/loi, oi( faino/menoi paraxrh=m' o(/t' a)\n pra/tth| tis eu)=: nu/ttousi ga\r kai\ flw=si ta)ntiknh/mia, e)ndeiknu/menos e(/kastos eu)/noia/n tina. kai/, ou)k e)s ko/rakas e)rrh/sete;
Notes:
The headword, illustrated by the first quotation given, is the present active infinitive of the contract verb fla/w, I crush; see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] The glosses, from the verbs qla/w and tu/ptw, respectively, are both present active infinitives; see LSJ s.vv. The headword is identically glossed in Photius' Lexicon (phi216 Theodoridis); cf. Etymologicum Gudianum phi551.59, Etymologicum Magnum 795.35 (Kallierges), and De Stefani, p. 66. (Different glossing in Hesychius phi267 s.v.)
[2] From the iambic canon on Epiphany (Nauck 2.25, p. 112) attributed to Saint John of Damascus (c.676-750; Louth, p. 5). The gruesome metaphor employed, crushing the head of a wild beast, is imagery for overcoming temptation and evil.
[3] Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 782-5 (web address 1): soon after the whole world's distribution of wealth has been reversed, Chremylus delivers this gripe about his poor farmer friends comprising the chorus. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms F omits the Aristophanic extracts from the entry; that mss AV omit ga\r (for), they nudge you; that ms A reads filw=si, which is probably an error; and that the last participial phrase here and then the rest of the entry is omitted by ms G.]
[4] Aristophanes, Peace 500 (web address 2): Hermes issues this imprecation (literally, go to the crows) to the men of Megara. [Adler reports that some of the manuscripts struggled with the second person plural, future indicative e)rrh/sete (you will be gone (slowly, to your peril)); that ms A reads e)rh/sete (which is otherwise unattested) and places ai above the final epsilon to suggest the emendation e)rh/setai, he/she/it will inquire; and that here ms V transmits eu(rh/setai, he/she/it will discover.]
References:
E.L. De Stefani, "Per le fonti dell' Etimologico Gudiano," Byzantinische Zeitschrift, vol. 16, 1907, pp. 52-68
A. Nauck, 'Iohannis Damasceni Canones iambici cum commentario et indice verborum ex schedis Augusti Nauck editi,' Bulletin de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, Nouvelle Série IV, 1894, pp. 105-129
A. Louth, St John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002
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