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Headword: *lhkuqisth/s
Adler number: lambda,437
Translated headword: hollow-voiced declaimer
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a man with a small voice. Thus Sophocles [uses the word].[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] lhkuqismo/s ["hollow speaking"].[2]
"To publish with well-twisted and modulated [speech] the hollow declamation of shameful and laughable songs."[3] That is, the excellent voice.
Greek Original:
*lhkuqisth/s: o( mikro/fwnos. ou(/tws *sofoklh=s. kai\ *lhkuqismo/s. perienegkei=n eu)stro/fws kai\ keklasme/nws to\n lhkuqismo\n tw=n ai)sxrw=n kai\ geloi/wn a)|sma/twn. toute/sti th\n eu)fwni/an.
Notes:
[1] Sophocles fr. 1063 (contextless). Also in Photius lambda257 Theodoridis (and similarly in Hesychius lambda856); and cf. lambda 440.
[2] Very rare: other than in the quotation which follows here, attested only in Plutarch, Moralia [That it is not possible to live pleasantly according to Epicurus] 1086E; accusative plural.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; medicine; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 April 2009@17:25:57.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 5 April 2009@04:23:42.
David Whitehead on 18 April 2013@04:09:02.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 18 April 2013@23:53:43.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 15 May 2020@23:16:42.

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