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Headword: *silhno/s
Adler number: sigma,414
Translated headword: Silenus, Silenos
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one who is silly, and a babbler. [Formed] out of the [verb] silai/nw, the [one that means] I talk nonsense.
Greek Original:
*silhno/s: o( salo/s, kai\ flu/aros. e)k tou= silai/nw, to\ fluarw=.
Notes:
cf. a scholion on Plato, Symposium 215A, where a hollow Silenus [Author, Myth]-figure is mentioned.
For silai/nw (or rather sillai/nw), see also sigma 410 and sigma 411.
Keywords: art history; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 January 2014@01:14:36.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 2 January 2014@03:25:43.


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