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Headword:
*au)ai/netai
Adler number: alpha,4418
Translated headword: is wasting away
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] is drying out.[1] For
au)=oi [means those who are] dry.
Also [sc. attested is the related noun]
au(asmo/s, [meaning] dryness. The first [syllable] has a rough breathing.[2]
Aristophanes [writes]: "then the child wastes away."[3] And in another place: "so that I wasted away when I saw it."[4]
Also [sc. attested is the optative]
au)ai/noito ["might he/she/it waste away"], [meaning] might he/she/it dry up, let him/her/it disappear.
In the
Epigrams: "might envy waste away, but your glory yet increase."[5]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]
*)Auai/nou li/qos ["stone of Dryness"], from corpses being dry. The stone of Dryness is at
Athens.[6]
*au)ai/netai: chrai/netai. au)=oi ga\r oi( chroi/. kai\ *au(asmo/s, chrasi/a. h( prw/th dasu/netai. *)aristofa/nhs: e)ntau=qa dh\ paida/rion e)cauai/netai. kai\ e(te/rwqi: w(/st' e)/gwg' hu)aino/mhn qew/menos. kai\ *au)ai/noito, chrai/noito, a)fanize/sqw. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: o( fqo/nos au)ai/noito, teo\n d' e)/ti ku=dos a)e/coi. kai\ *au)ai/nou li/qos, a)po\ tou= au)/ous tou\s nekrou\s ei)=nai. *au)ai/nou li/qos h)=n *)aqh/nhsin.
Notes:
[1] (cf. generally
alpha 4421.) The headword is quoted from
Nicander,
Theriaca 339; same gloss in the
scholia there.
[2] Because of crasis with the definite article
o(.
[3]
Aristophanes fr. 612 Kock, now 659 K.-A.
[4]
Aristophanes fr. 613 Kock, now 660 K.-A.
[5]
Greek Anthology 6.116.5 (Samius [
Samus,
Samos]), Philip V dedicates a hide and horns to Heracles; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 177), (vol. II, 510), and another extract from this epigram at
mu 1096. On the confusion concerning the poet's name, see Gow and Page (vol. II, 509).
[6] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Frogs 194, where this mysterious stone is mentioned.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: children; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 March 2002@21:40:27.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 11 April 2002@12:35:42.
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