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Headword: *foinikikw=n
Adler number: phi,791
Translated headword: Phoenician
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
“Freed from battle-lines and Phoenician evils”.[1] [sc. This is said] either because a phoinikis[2] was a military cloak; or meaning naval evils; for Phoenicians are said to prevail in sea-battles. Or [in the sense of] bloody; from the colour of blood. And Homer [says]: "the ground was red [foini/sseto] with blood".[3]
Greek Original:
*foinikikw=n: ta/cewn a)pallage/ntes kai\ kakw=n *foinikikw=n. h)\ o(/ti foiniki\s xlamu\s h)=n polemikh/: h)\ a)nti\ tou= nautikw=n kakw=n: *foi/nikes ga\r le/gontai kratei=n e)n tai=s naumaxi/ais. h)\ ai(matwdw=n: a)po\ th=s tou= ai(/matos xroia=s. kai\ *(/omhros: foini/sseto d' ai(/mati gai=a.
Notes:
The headword, evidently extracted from the Aristophanic quotation given, is a genitive plural.
[1] Aristophanes, Peace 303 (web address 1), followed by comment from the scholia there.
[2] See Moeris, Lexicon Atticum s.v. and phi 788.
[3] A variant of Homer, Iliad 10.484: in the standard manuscript tradition the verb is e)ruqai/neto (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; history; medicine; military affairs; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 31 December 2007@09:05:16.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 31 December 2007@10:51:17.
David Whitehead on 9 August 2011@08:08:47.
David Whitehead (coding) on 31 May 2016@07:56:36.
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