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Headword:
Aikallei
Adler number: alphaiota,160
Translated headword: fawns
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] flatters, sways, persuades.[1]
"[He] being obsequious and fawning up to[2] the laurel of the king/emperor."[3]
To fawn up to [u(paika/llein] is also used. "[He] being obsequious and at the same time fawning up to the crib of Antonius."[4]
Greek Original:Aikallei: thôpeuei, kinei, protrepetai. tên basileôs therapeuôn kai hupaikallôn daphnên. legetai kai hupaikallein. tên Antôniou therapeuôn kai hupaikallôn hama phatnên.
Notes:
See also
alphaiota 161.
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 211, where the headword occurs; cf.
eta 159.
[2] The word used here is the participle of a compound of the headword,
u(paika/llwn, rather than the headword itself. See later in the entry.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
[4]
Aelian fr. 110c Domingo-Forasté (107 Hercher); cf.
alpha 1091,
upsilon 176,
phi 132.
Keywords: biography; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery
Translated by: William Hutton on 3 November 2002@12:14:15.
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