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Headword:
Βάμμα
Κυζικηνόν
Adler number: beta,89
Translated headword: Cyzicene dye
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Attic [writers] call impure indecorum [this].[1]
And [there is] another proverb: "Sardinian dye [
bamma Sardianikon], meaning may I not make you red; like, so that I do not turn you crimson. For Sardo [=
Sardinia] is a very big island near Italy in which there are various vivid purple [dyes]. So he is wanting to say, so that I will cause you to be given blows.[2]
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ἄγχουσα concerning the rouge of women.[3]
Βάμμα Κυζικηνόν: τὴν ἀκάθαρτον ἀσχημοσύνην Ἀττικοὶ λέγουσι. καὶ ἑτέρα παροιμία: Βάμμα Σαρδιανικόν, ἀντὶ τοῦ μή σε ἐρυθρὸν ποιήσω: οἷον ἵνα μή σε φοινίξω. νῆσος γάρ ἐστι μεγίστη ἡ Σαρδὼ πρὸς τῇ Ἰταλίᾳ, ἐν ᾗ γίνονται πορφύραι διάφοροι καὶ ὀξύταται. βούλεται οὖν δηλοῦν, ἵνα μή σε πληγὰς ἐντρίψω. ζήτει ἐν τῷ ἄγχουσα περὶ ἐρυθήματος γυναικῶν.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Apostolius 4.73. More specifically the phrase is used -- by
Aristophanes,
Peace 1176 (not noted by Adler) -- to mean cowardice.
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 112 (web address 1 below), where the featured phrase occurs; cf.
iota 363,
sigma 130. For the idiom
πληγὰς ἐντρίβειν or
ἐντρίβεσθαι , normally with the dative, see LSJ s.v.
ἐντρίβω .
[3]
alpha 416.
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Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; proverbs; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 June 2002@20:49:01.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 14 June 2002@03:09:36.
David Whitehead (corrected an error spotted by Nicholas Fincher) on 17 September 2004@08:12:13.
Catharine Roth (added betacode) on 28 November 2004@22:54:27.
David Whitehead (modified tr; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 21 May 2012@04:54:25.
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