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Headword:
*skuqrwpa/zw
Adler number: sigma,706
Translated headword: I look sullen
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [verb that means] I am gloomy.[1]
The word [is] metaphorical, from the Scythians; also [sc. attested is] the [word]
w)/y, [genitive]
w)po/s, which means the face;[2] for
o)/y ["voice"] [is] speech, [spelled] with the omicron.[3]
"O
Plato, how you [?]were nothing save only being sullen, you who have solemnly raised your eyebrows like a snail."[4]
*skuqrwpa/zw: to\ stugna/zw. metaforikh\ h( le/cis a)po\ tw=n *skuqw=n: kai\ to\ w)/y, w)po/s, o(\ shmai/nei to\ pro/swpon: o)\y ga\r h( fwnh/, dia\ tou= o mikrou=. w)= *pla/twn, w(s ou)de\n h)=sqa plh\n skuqrwpa/zein mo/non, w(/sper koxli/as semnw=s e)phrkw\s ta\s o)fru=s.
Notes:
[1] ps.-
Zonaras has the same gloss. The adjective
skuqro/s and derived words are related to
sku/zomai (
sigma 701), not to "Scythian."
[2] cf. Orion [
Author,
Myth] 148.15, from which derives
Etymologicum Magnum 720.7. See
omicron 1068,
omega 290. LSJ entry at web address 1.
[3] LSJ entry at web address 2.
[4]
Diogenes Laertius 3.28, quoting the comic poet
Amphis (fr. 13 Kock and Kassel-Austin). The main verb in the passage, transmitted here as 'were', is emended by some editors to 'know' (but retained in e.g. H.S. Long's OCT of D.L.).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; imagery; zoology
Translated by: Timothy Pepper on 27 February 2001@07:06:48.
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