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Headword: *)hleo/s
Adler number: eta,204
Translated headword: idle, vain
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one who is foolish, and stupid.
Greek Original:
*)hleo/s: o( ma/taios, kai\ mwro/s.
Notes:
cf. already eta 203. The present entry, on a poetic adjective, is almost certainly an Homeric gloss (see also Hesychius eta343, Etymologicum Magnum 59,45); vocative in Odyssey 2.243, Iliad 15.228; with transitive meaning "making people crazy", referring to wine, in Homer, Odyssey 14.464 (cf. scholia thereto, and Hesychius eta331).
Form h)leh\s in Hesychius eta342; Doric form a)leo/s at Hesychius alpha2737, from Aeschylus (fr.410).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; food; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 9 March 2006@22:45:55.
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