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Headword: *zw/nh
Adler number: zeta,141
Translated headword: belt
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the rank [which it signifies].[1]
"As the empress was seeking to expel not only private citizens, but also those who wore the belt."[2]
And Aelian [writes]: "and somehow the innkeeper caught sight of the belt of [= containing] the gold, which the guest was wearing, and at once eyed it greedily."[3]
Interpretation of a dream: "if a belt is cut, it ends the journey quickly."[4]
Greek Original:
*zw/nh: to\ a)ci/wma. a)nazhtoume/nous th=s basili/dos w)qei=sqai ou) mo/non i)diw/tas, a)lla\ kai\ tou\s u(po\ zw/nhn. kai\ *ai)liano/s: kai/ pws th\n zw/nhn tou= xrusi/ou, h(\n e)ph/geto o( ce/nos, o( pandokeu\s e)qea/sato kai\ paraxrh=ma e)pofqalmia=|. lu/sis o)nei/rou: zw/nh kopei=sa th\n o(do\n lu/ei ta/xos.
Notes:
See also zeta 139, zeta 140.
[1] This gloss applies only to the first quotation given, where the belt is a Byzantine insignia of rank (see next note). In the second, and possibly in the third, the item in question is a money-belt.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable -- but seemingly faulty, in any event, as it stands. This translation adopts feminine genitive singular a)nazhtoume/nhs, from ps.-Zonaras, for the transmitted a)nazhtoume/nous (masculine accusative plural). Alternatively, with Bernhardy, construe basili/dos as an adjective and supply au)lh=s: 'they were seeking to expel from the royal court...', or something similar.
[3] Aelian fr. 84d Domingo-Forasté (81 Hercher). The story is told more fully at tau 636; see also epsilon 2821.
[4] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychus (alpha 4251).
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 May 2003@18:49:36.
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