Ἀνθοσμίας
flower-smelling, redolent of flowers
Translated by Jennifer Benedict6 Jul 2000Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Referring to a] wine of fine bouquet.1
[Meaning] fragrant. From a place [called] Anthosmion;2 or as if from a type of vine, or [meaning] sweet and fragrant and flowery.
Anthosmias, [referring to a] wine of fine bouquet, with the flower and the scent included in [it]. By derivation anthosmios [sc. gives rise to] anthosmias; they used to call coarse wine headache-inducing.3 Aristophanes in Frogs [writes]: "Dionysus, you're drinking a wine which does not have a fine bouquet."4 Meaning you are drunk, you are hungover, from drinking harsh wine.5
anthos is also said to be white hair, hence phalanthos, a bald patch, a bald pate.6
[Meaning] fragrant. From a place [called] Anthosmion;2 or as if from a type of vine, or [meaning] sweet and fragrant and flowery.
Anthosmias, [referring to a] wine of fine bouquet, with the flower and the scent included in [it]. By derivation anthosmios [sc. gives rise to] anthosmias; they used to call coarse wine headache-inducing.3 Aristophanes in Frogs [writes]: "Dionysus, you're drinking a wine which does not have a fine bouquet."4 Meaning you are drunk, you are hungover, from drinking harsh wine.5
anthos is also said to be white hair, hence phalanthos, a bald patch, a bald pate.6