[Meaning] with luxuries,[1] with [things] making [one] blossom.[2] "I reared the two of them with blossoms."[3]
"For the girl was was an ambrosial blossom of Loves and Graces."[4]
That is, an offshoot.[5]
*qale/essi: trufai=s, qa/llein poiou/sais. tw\ me\n e)gw\ qale/essin a)ne/trefon. h)=n ga\r *)erw/twn kai\ *xari/twn h( pai=s a)mbro/sio/n ti qa/los. toute/sti bla/sthma.
The headword is an epic dialect form of the dative plural of
qa/los, apparently extracted from the first quotation given (which is the only non-lexicographical appearance of this form), although in the quotation the word has the nu-moveable at the end, which the headword lacks; cf.
Hesychius theta32, on which see further, next note.
[1] According to Adler, one manuscript (Vossianus Fol. 2) reads
trofai=s (meaning 'ways of education' or 'means of rearing') in place of
trufai=s ('luxuries'). This alternative fits the context of the following citation from
Callimachus — note his use of the same root in
a)ne/trefon. However, the majority reading
trufai=s should probably be preferred, as it too fits the context, and is similar in meaning to the different glosses offered by
Hesychius theta32:
pio/thti ('with richness'),
lipari/ais ('with excesses').
[2] cf.
theta 30.
[3]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 48 Hollis (337 Pfeiffer + 287 Lloyd-Jones/Parsons).
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.292.3 (
Hedylus); cf.
alpha 1539. Here the word appears in the nominative singular.
[5] This addendum explains that
qa/los in the epigram just quoted means 'offshoot' (or 'offspring'), i.e. child. Both this and the previous quotation use
qa/los in a metaphorical sense, though not in the same sense.
Hollis, A.S., ed. Callimachus: Hecale, Oxford: Clarendon, 1990
Lloyd-Jones, H. and P. Parsons, eds. Supplementum Hellenisticum. Berlin 1983
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