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Headword: *lussomanei=s
Adler number: lambda,869
Translated headword: raving mad
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning ones] enraged by madness. "Shaking his whirling, raving mad locks".[1]
Greek Original:
*lussomanei=s: u(po\ mani/as lelusshko/tas. r(ombhtou\s done/wn lussomanei=s ploka/mous.
Notes:
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
cf. lambda 851, lambda 854.
[1] Greek Anthology 6.219.2 (attributed to Antipater of Sidon), a Gallus takes shelter in a mountain cavern, there encounters a lion, but drives it away by beating his tambour; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 33); (vol. II, 84-86); and further extracts from this epigram at alpha 1510, alpha 1828, alpha 4172, epsilon 747, zeta 19, kappa 2544, sigma 299, and sigma 1723. As Roller observes (229-231), it is conceivable that Hellenistic poets were inclined to exaggerate the behavior of the Galli (cf. gamma 41, gamma 42), Phrygian goddess Kybele's (Cybele, kappa 2586) eunuch priests.
References:
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)
L.E. Roller, In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele, (Berkeley 1999)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; imagery; meter and music; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 August 2007@05:57:36.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 8 August 2007@02:27:13.
Catharine Roth on 8 August 2007@02:27:48.
David Whitehead (x-refs) on 8 August 2007@03:23:01.
David Whitehead on 24 April 2013@06:27:58.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 26 June 2020@17:21:32.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 5 August 2021@11:52:49.

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