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Headword:
Γλίσχρος
Adler number: gamma,289
Translated headword: Wheedler
Vetting Status: low
Translation: A lowlife, a flatterer. "Become a wheedler, asking, begging.
Euripides....". [In]
liparôn the lambda-iota [is] long.[1]
Also
glischrôn ["longing for"], desiring; from
glichesthai ["to long for"].[2]
And
glischrôs ["submissively"], in a slippery manner.
Γλίσχρος: ταπεινὸς, κόλαξ. γενοῦ γλίσχρος, προσαιτῶν, λιπαρῶν τ' Εὐριπίδη. λιπαρῶν: τὸ λι μακρόν. καὶ Γλίσχρων, ὁ ἐπιθυμητής: παρὰ τὸ γλίχεσθαι. καὶ Γλίσχρως, ὀλισθηρῶς.
Notes:
Cf. generally
gamma 288,
gamma 290.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 451-2 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the
scholia there. Cf.
lambda 579. The verb
λιπαρέω could be transitive as well as intransitive, and both of these entries appear to treat it as the former; however, as the translation shows, "
Euripides" (vocative anyway!) is part of the following sentence.
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Peace 193, where the word occurs.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 July 2002@23:51:31.
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