Ἀθυρογλωττία
impudent loquacity
Translated by Jennifer Benedict21 Dec 1999Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the unbridled tongue.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀθυρογλωττία· ἡ ἀχαλίνωτος γλῶσσα.
Betacode
*)aquroglwtti/a: h( a)xali/nwtos glw=ssa.
Notes
- Same headword -- a single word in the Greek -- in ps.-Zonaras but glossed as 'nonsense' (
fluari/a ).
For this term -- literally playfulness of the tongue -- see e.g. Polybius 8.10.1 (criticizing this in Theopompus). The related adjective appears under alpha 1306 = tau 52.
For the gloss cf. pi 2560.