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Headword:
*su/kinon
Adler number: sigma,1324
Translated headword: fig-wood, made of fig-wood
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] feeble.[1] And [there is] a proverb: "fig-wood knife", meaning vexatious prosecution ['sycophancy'].[2]
Also another proverb: "fig-wood assistance", in reference to useless people/things.[3]
"But we sat there expecting the fig-wood assistance, the soldiers".[4]
[Note] that a 'fig-wood' [war]ship' signifies a cheap one. And see under 'even Mandron got'.[5]
Greek Original:*su/kinon: a)sqene/s. kai\ paroimi/a: *suki/nh ma/xaira, a)nti\ tou= sukofa/ntis. kai\ e(te/ra paroimi/a: *suki/nh e)pikouri/a, e)pi\ tw=n a)nwfelw=n. h(mei=s de\ oi( kaqh/menoi th\n suki/nhn e)pikouri/an, tou\s stratiw/tas, prosdexo/menoi. o(/ti suki/nh nau=s to\ eu)tele\s dhloi=. kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| e)ge/neto kai\ *ma/ndrwni.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Hesychius (sigma2233) and
Photius'
Lexicon (sigma683 Theodoridis), and cf. the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 946, from where the neuter singular headword is quoted. "The wood of fig trees is often soft and the latex precludes its use for many purposes": Wikipedia, web address 1.
[2] Likewise in
Photius (sigma682 Theodoridis), though without the 'proverb' label there, and with a superior version of the glossing word:
sukofanti/a rather than the Suda's
sukofa/ntis. The phrase itself is reckoned to come from Attic comedy:
Comica adespota fr. 905 Kock = 427 K.-A.
[3] cf. (e.g.)
Apostolius 15.81.
[4] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as a close approximation of a passage in
Synesius,
Epistles 125. See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.XCVII.
[5] From
epsilon 49 (q.v.).
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 June 2013@09:09:54.
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