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Headword:
*fwnaskei=n
Adler number: phi,651
Translated headword: to voice-train
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to practise fine voice-production.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective]
fwnaskiko/n, [meaning something] trumpet-like.[2]
"Under the emperor
Theodosius the category of voice-trainers [appeared? flourished?], tracked on all sides".[3]
*fwnaskei=n: eu)fwni/an a)skei=n. kai\ *fwnaskiko/n, bou/kinon. e)pi\ *qeodosi/ou tou= basile/ws to\ tw=n fwnaskou/ntwn ge/nos, pantaxo/qen a)nixneuo/menon.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica. For 'fine voice-production' see also under
gamma 302.
[2] Adler reports a parallel entry in the
Ambrosian Lexicon, and also connects this material with
Plutarch,
Tiberius Gracchus 2.5: Gaius Gracchus (sic), prone to high and harsh speech, sought to avoid this by having his servant Licinius stand behind him with a
fwnaskiko\n o)/rganon ("pitch-pipe": LSJ). For 'trumpet' cf.
beta 591.
[3] Quotation (and which
Theodosius:
theta 144 or
theta 145) unidentifiable.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 August 2011@05:41:42.
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