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Headword: Δαλίον
Adler number: delta,31
Translated headword: dalion
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
The comic poets [render it] thus, with a lambda. 'Come now, I will [take and] dip this torch.' For by dipping, it seems, they used to eliminate the fire. But others write δᾳδίον .[1]
Dalidas, [genitive] Dalida.[2]
Greek Original:
Δαλίον: οὕτως οἱ κωμικοὶ διὰ τοῦ λ. φέρε δὴ τὸ δαλίον τόδ' ἐμβάψω. ἐδόκουν γὰρ καθαίρειν ἀποβάπτοντες τοῦ πυρός. οἱ δὲ δᾳδίον γράφουσιν. ἡ δαλιδᾶς, τῆς δαλιδᾶ.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Peace 959 (Web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. For the alternative see delta 5.
[2] Better known as Delilah; cf. sigma 87.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; religion; science and technology; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 October 2003@06:38:04.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (cosmetics, added link and keyword, set status) on 5 October 2003@02:31:29.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 5 October 2003@05:22:40.
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