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Headword: *fe/yalos
Adler number: phi,239
Translated headword: ember
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[*fe/yalos] and feya/luc: [sc. both mean a] spark, flying up out of the burning timbers.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "but not even an ember is left of a seducer." As if [to say] a hot coal, a spark. But the Milesians are being reproached as seducers.[2]
Greek Original:
*fe/yalos kai\ *feya/luc: spinqh/r, o( a)nafero/menos e)k tw=n kaiome/nwn cu/lwn. *)aristofa/nhs: a)ll' ou)de\ moixou= katale/leiptai feya/luc. oi(=on zwpu/rhma, spinqh/r. diaba/llontai de\ w(s moixoi\ oi( *milh/sioi.
Notes:
See also phi 240.
[1] Same or similar material in other lexica (references at Photius phi124 Theodoridis), and cf. scholia on Aristophanes, Acharnians 668 (where fe/yalos occurs).
[2] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 107 (using feya/luc), with scholion. The Milesians are mentioned in the following line; cf. omicron 169.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 October 2011@01:46:23.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 October 2011@03:46:27.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 6 December 2013@04:39:42.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 24 January 2023@00:36:04.

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