Βάμμα Κυζικηνόν
Cyzicene dye
Translated by Jennifer Benedict13 Jun 2002Vetting: high11 revisions
Translation
Attic [writers] call impure indecorum [this].1
And [there is] another proverb: "Sardinian dye [bamma Sardianikon], meaning may I not make you red; like, so that I do not turn you crimson. For Sardo [= Sardinia] is a very big island near Italy in which there are various vivid purple-fish.2 So he is wanting to say, so that I will cause you to be given blows.3
Search in [the entry on]a)/gxousa concerning the rouge of women.4
And [there is] another proverb: "Sardinian dye [bamma Sardianikon], meaning may I not make you red; like, so that I do not turn you crimson. For Sardo [= Sardinia] is a very big island near Italy in which there are various vivid purple-fish.2 So he is wanting to say, so that I will cause you to be given blows.3
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