Jealousies.[1] “[She is] giving up banquets and the rivalries of youths and the scratches of lovers[2] and the initiation lamp”.[3]
[1] Accusative plural(s), from the quotation which follows.
[2]
ποθεύντων is a Doric form of the present participle of
ποθέω , which occurs in
Theocritus, the poetic model in this case.
[3] Greek Anthology 7.219.5-6 (
Pompeius Neoteros); cf.
kappa 1878. The subject is a woman, Lais, “fallen in a due sleep” (line 4). Perhaps this is Lais the legendary courtesan of ancient Greece who was active in Corinth (see
epsilon 3266) and, according to
Timaeus (FGrH 566 F24a), was murdered by jealous women in Thessaly in the temple of
Aphrodite.
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