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Headword: Allêgoria
Adler number: alpha,1170
Translated headword: allegory
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a metaphor.
The word saying one thing and the thought another.
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'allegorical dreams', [meaning] those which say some things through others; whereas [dreams] to be taken literally [are] are those which seem like they look.[1]
Greek Original:
Allêgoria: hê metaphora. allo legon to gramma kai allo to noêma. kai Allêgorikoi oneiroi, hoi alla di' allôn agoreuontes: theôrêmatikoi de, hoi têi heautôn theai proseoikotes.
Notes:
The first part of this entry has parallels in other lexica; references at Photius pi994 Theodoridis.
[1] This basic distinction between two types of dream, the a)llhgorikoi/ and the qewrhmatikoi/, is found in Artemidorus 1.2.
Keywords: definition; dreams; imagery
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 April 2000@08:58:43.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note; cosmetics) on 28 January 2001@09:33:12.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 12 June 2002@09:14:41.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 2 October 2005@08:21:12.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 18 October 2005@05:42:48.
David Whitehead (another note; tweaks) on 5 February 2012@07:49:39.
Catharine Roth (typos) on 8 April 2012@23:23:28.
David Whitehead on 20 August 2013@06:12:55.
David Whitehead on 30 May 2015@08:28:11.
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