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Headword: *sfakeli/zontes
Adler number: sigma,1709
Translated headword: being in convulsions
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning ones] breaking apart, throbbing, being tremulous.[1]
Because "to be in convulsions" is to be inflamed, and to convulse because of this. Cratinus [sc. uses the word].[2]
Greek Original:
*sfakeli/zontes: diaspw=ntes, phdw=ntes, u(potre/montes. o(/ti to\ sfakeli/zein flegmai/nein e)sti/, kai\ dia\ tou=to spa=sqai. *krati=nos.
Notes:
[1] = Synagoge sigma398 and Photius, Lexicon sigma856, where Theodoridis (following Adler) declares the headword (present active participle, masculine plural nominative, of sfakeli/zw) to be quoted from Deuteronomy 28:32 LXX (concerning eyes). (Less likely to be from Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 8.6.5, the only other literary attestation of this form.) See also, post-Suda, Etymologicum Magnum 736.46-7, and similarly elsewhere. For a derived noun, see sigma 1710.
[2] Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AF. It comes from alpha 3496, q.v. (The word means mortify, putrefy, fester, as well (LSJ: web address 1); the meaning in Cratinus is LSJ s.v., II. The form in question here is the present active infinitive of the headword verb.)
Associated internet address:
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Translated by: David Armstrong on 2 July 2014@17:10:46.
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