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Headword:
*frenoblabh/s
Adler number: phi,703
Translated headword: addle-brained
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one whose wits are addled, an insane person.
"When Leo was emperor of the Romans, the Ethiopians brought giraffes and two addle-brained men with very short bodies, the sort that
Homer called pygmies."[1]
*frenoblabh/s: o( ta\s fre/nas beblamme/nos, o( para/frwn. e)pi\ *le/ontos tou= basile/ws *(rwmai/wn *ai)qi/opes e)ko/misan kamhloparda/leis kai\ du/o e)n braxuta/tois sw/masin a)/ndras frenoblabei=s, ou(\s dh\ pugmai/ous *(/omhros w)no/mase.
Notes:
For addle-brained-ness see already
phi 702.
[1]
Homer,
Iliad 3.6. The quotation as a whole is reckoned to be
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 128 Zintzen (78 Asmus), though Adler had wanted to attribute it to 'a Byzantine chronicle'. For Leo(n), see
lambda 267.
Translated by: William Hutton on 18 March 2001@01:21:10.
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