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Headword: *titanw=des ble/pein
Adler number: tau,680
Translated headword: to glance in a Titanic manner
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning to do so] astonishingly, fearsomely.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Titanic seed'. Aelian [writes]: "being in so much evil, he did not forget that loathsome and godless treatise which the man from Gargettus [i.e. Epicurus] inflicted as a stain on life, like what grows out of Titanic seeds."[2]
Greek Original:
*titanw=des ble/pein: kataplhktiko/n, fobero/n. kai\ *titaniko\n spe/rma. *ai)liano/s: o( de\ e)n tosou/tw| kakw=| w)\n ou)k e)pela/qeto th=s bdelura=s e)kei/nhs kai\ a)qe/ou suggrafh=s, h(\n o( *gargh/ttios, w(/sper ou)=n ta\ e)k *titanikw=n sperma/twn fu/nta. tw=| bi/w| ... prosetri/yato.
Notes:
[1] Headword and glosses also in Apostolius 16.64 and Appendix Proverbiorum 4.89, in both cases in the third person: "he/she/it looks Titanically."
[2] Aelian fr. 92b Domingo-Forasté (part of 89 Hercher). "The man Euphronius, a man possessed, rejoiced in Epicurus' chatter, and also drew two evils from it: being godless and licentious. Being in so much evil, he did not forget that loathsome and godless treatise which which the man from Gargettus inflicted as a stain on human life, like what grows out of Titanic seeds." Quotation already in kappa 156 and kappa 1511.
The Titanic seeds may refer to something like the Spartoi.
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; ethics; geography; imagery; mythology; philosophy; proverbs; religion
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 16 November 2008@09:13:35.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 17 November 2008@03:45:37.
Catharine Roth (updated reference) on 29 October 2012@18:26:11.
David Whitehead on 14 January 2014@03:40:36.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 15 January 2014@01:20:58.
David Whitehead (coding etc.) on 29 May 2016@03:49:28.

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