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Headword:
Φέψαλος
Adler number: phi,239
Translated headword: ember
Vetting Status: low
Translation: [
φέψαλος ] and
φεψάλυξ : a spark, flying up out of the burning timbers.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "but not even an ember is left of a seducer." As if [to say] a hot coal, a spark. But the Milesians are being reproached as seducers.[2]
Φέψαλος καὶ Φεψάλυξ: σπινθήρ, ὁ ἀναφερόμενος ἐκ τῶν καιομένων ξύλων. Ἀριστοφάνης: ἀλλ' οὐδὲ μοιχοῦ καταλέλειπται φεψάλυξ. οἷον ζωπύρημα, σπινθήρ. διαβάλλονται δὲ ὡς μοιχοὶ οἱ Μιλήσιοι.
Notes:
See also
phi 240.
[1] Same or similar material in other lexica, and cf.
scholia on
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 668 (where
φέψαλος occurs).
[2]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 107, with scholion. The Milesians are mentioned in the following line; cf.
omicron 169.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 October 2011@01:46:23.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 October 2011@03:46:27.
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