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Headword:
Aphthas
Adler number: alpha,4627
Translated headword: Aphthas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Another name for] Dionysus.[1] The alpha [is] intensive; like a)/staxus ["ear of corn"].[2] And [there is] a proverb: "Aphthas has spoken to you". He was an oraclemonger.
Greek Original:Aphthas: ho Dionusos. to a epitatikon: hôs astachus. kai paroimia: ho Aphthas soi lelalêken. ên de chrêsmologos.
Notes:
[1] Apparently an error for Hephaestus. See
phi 477; also the version of the proverb, about to be quoted here, in Arsenius,
Apophthegmata 4.54a.
[2] Here the alpha is prothetic. See
alpha 4224.
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; proverbs; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 June 2001@23:00:19.
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