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Headword:
*qumhdi/a
Adler number: theta,559
Translated headword: joy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] delight, enjoyment, gladness.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] qumhdou/menoi ["they deriving joy"].[2] "Deriving joy from pan-pipes and auloi, they were [inclined] to joys with boys and women."[3]
Greek Original:*qumhdi/a: te/ryis, trufh/, eu)frasi/a. kai\ *qumhdou/menoi. oi( de\ u(po\ suri/ggwn kai\ au)lw=n qumhdou/menoi meta\ pai/dwn kai\ gunaikw=n pro\s qumhdi/as h)=san.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; see the references at
Photius theta260 Theodoridis. The headword is not in LSJ, but see Lampe s.v.
[2] Present middle participle of
qumhde/w, masculine nominative plural; presumably from the quotation which follows.
[3] Quotation -- corrupt, in Bernhardy's opinion -- unidentifiable. (Adler tentatively attributed it to
Aelian.)
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 October 2007@00:47:42.
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