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Headword:
Aphrodision
Adler number: alpha,4652
Translated headword: Aphrodision, Aphrodisium
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In a special sense [this is] the shrine of Aphrodite.[1]
"He recounted [this] in the speech eagerly and with an Aphrodite[2] not particularly extraordinary."
Aelian [sc. says this].[3]
And [there is] a proverb: "an Aphrodisian oath may be violated with impunity", in reference to those who because of passion swear [oaths] often and swear falsely.[4]
Aphrodision: idiôs to tês Aphroditês hedos. ho de diêlthe tôi logôi philotimôs te kai sun Aphroditêi ou mala perittêi. Ailianos. kai paroimia: Aphrodisios horkos ouk empoinimos, epi tôn di' erôta omnuontôn pollakis kai epiorkountôn.
Notes:
For this headword see also
alpha 4651.
[1] From Harpokration s.v. (which is equally brief) On Aphrodite see generally OCD(4) s.v. (pp.116-7).
[2] Sexual desire.
[3]
Aelian fr. 186 Domingo-Forasté (183 Hercher).
[4] From a scholium to
Plato,
Symposium 183B, where the phrase "Aphrodisian oath" appears; cf.
tau 201, and see generally Tosi [cited under
alpha 378] no.332.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 June 2001@02:53:05.
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