Γύργαθος

creel, wicker-cage

Translated by Jennifer Benedict19 Jul 2002Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 33 words
And [there is] a proverb: "you are blowing up a creel", in reference to those laboring in vain.1
So a gu/rgaqos [is] a couch [sic!], in which they whirl-around the palsied and demonic.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Γύργαθος. καὶ παροιμία· Γύργαθον φυσᾷς, ἐπὶ τῶν μάτην πονούντων. Γύργαθος οὖν κλίνη, ἐν ᾗ τοὺς παρέτους καὶ δαιμονιώδεις στροβοῦσι.

Betacode
*gu/rgaqos. kai\ paroimi/a: *gu/rgaqon fusa=|s, e)pi\ tw=n ma/thn ponou/ntwn. *gu/rgaqos ou)=n kli/nh, e)n h(=| tou\s pare/tous kai\ daimoniw/deis strobou=si.

Notes (2)

  1. The unglossed headword is also, Adler reports, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
    See also under mu 219.
  2. 1Appendix Proverbiorum 1.89. ↩
  3. 2The precise source of this addendum is unidentifiable, though in substance it corresponds to material in the medical writer Paul of Aegina (C7 CE), Epitomae medicae libri septem 3.14.3. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 30 Sep 2015
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. added notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Jennifer Benedict

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