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Headword:
Ὀβελίσκος
Adler number: omicron,6
Translated headword: spit
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Also [sc. attested is]
ὀβελίσκος ["small spit"]: skewer.[1]
Xenophon [writes]: "someone from within struck with an ox-piercing spit right through the thigh of the nearest man."[2]
And [there is] a proverb: "the heat of the spit." [Used] in reference to those who choose the worse instead of the better.[3]
Ὀβελός: καὶ Ὀβελίσκος, ἡ σούβλα. Ξενοφῶν: ἐπάταξεν ἔνδον βουπόρῳ τις ὀβελίσκῳ διαμπερὲς τὸν μηρὸν τοῦ ἐγγυτάτω. καὶ παροιμία: Τὸ θερμὸν τοῦ ὀβελοῦ. ἐπὶ τῶν τὰ χείρονα ἀντὶ τῶν κρειττόνων αἱρουμένων.
Notes:
[1] Cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 613.2. From the non-classical
souvla (used here as the gloss) comes the modern Greek souvlakia.
[2]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 7.8.14 (web address 1).
[3] Again at
tau 734. Cf.
Photius s.v.
τὸ θερμόν ;
Zenobius 6.19.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; ethics; food; historiography; military affairs; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 October 2002@01:26:27.
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