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Headword: Ψιθυρίζει
Adler number: psi,98
Translated headword: whispers
Vetting Status: low
Translation:

With accusative. Speaks softly into the ear.[1] Slanders.[2]
Also, temple of Aphrodite the Whisperer.[3]
When a soft wind blows and goes gently through the leaves, as if it speaks to the trees, which is called whispering. And Theokritos [writes]: "whispering is a sweet thing, and that pine tree, O goatherd ..."[4]
Also λόγος ψίθυρος ["whispering word"]: slanderous.
Sophokles [writes]: "devising such whispering words ..."[5]

Greek Original:

Ψιθυρίζει: αἰτιατικῇ. ἠρέμα εἰς τὸ οὖς διαλέγεται. διαβάλλει. καί, Ἀφροδίτης ψιθύρου ἱερόν. πνέοντος ἀνέμου μαλακοῦ καὶ ἠρέμα διὰ τῶν φύλλων εἰσιόντος, ὥσπερ προσλαλεῖ τὰ δένδρα, ὅπερ ψιθυρίζειν λέγεται. καὶ Θεόκριτος: ἁδύ τι τὸ ψιθύρισμα, καὶ ἁ πίτυς, αἰπόλε, τήνα. καὶ Λόγος ψίθυρος, ὁ διάβολος. Σοφοκλῆς: τοιούσδε λόγους ψιθύρους πλάσσων.

Notes:

[1] Similarly glossed in Hesychius. This headword (cf. under tau 763, tau 1100), third person singular present indicative active, is evidently quoted from somewhere.
[2] From psi 99.
[3] cf. psi 99, psi 100.
[4] Scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 1007; Theocritus, Idylls 1.1 (also at alpha 536, alpha 3220, tau 511).
[5] Sophocles, Ajax 148.

Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 January 2006@01:16:13.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 4 January 2006@03:47:34.

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