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Headword:
Ὤμιλλα
Adler number: omega,92
Translated headword: omilla
Vetting Status: low
Translation: A particular child's game, in which the one who has thrown a nut into the ring, so that it remains [there], wins.
Eupolis in
Golden Race [says]: "since I am in, having stayed here in the omilla."[1]
From a contraction
ἥ ὅμιλλα [is] also
ὥμιλλα .[2]
Greek Original:Ὤμιλλα: παιδιά τις, ἐν ᾗ ὁ εἰς τὸν κύκλον βαλὼν κάρυον, ὥστε ἐμμεῖναι, νικᾷ. Εὔπολις Χρυσῷ γένει: ἐπεισείμεθα δὲ μείνας εἰς ὤμιλλαν. ἀπὸ συναιρέσεως ἡ ὅμιλλα καὶ ὥμιλλα.
Notes:
See generally LSJ s.v.
[1]
Eupolis fr.288 Kock, in garbled form; its reconstructed version is translated here. For this word see also
Eupolis fr.250 Kock.
[2] Incorrect, as the headword is not aspirated.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Sheila Kurian on 6 June 2000@02:34:06.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (streamlined translator's notes; supplied other notes; cosmetics) on 5 July 2002@10:19:42.
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