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Headword: *faidrwpo/n
Adler number: phi,158
Translated headword: bright-faced
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning sc. having] a delightful and graceful face.
Greek Original:
*faidrwpo/n: to\ terpno\n kai\ xa/rien pro/swpon.
Notes:
Neuter accusative singular of this adjective, with same or similar glossing in other lexica -- referring (as Adler notes) to Euripides, Orestes 895 (web address 1): the herald Talthybius is casting obsequious glances at the friends of Aegisthus.
The adjective is also used (in the masculine nominative singular, of a young lion) by Aeschylus, Agamemnon 725.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 September 2011@22:16:31.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 18 September 2011@04:18:20.
David Whitehead on 5 December 2013@04:26:13.

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