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Κονίσαλος · dust-cloud (κ 2040) · Suda

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κ2036dust
κ2037being covered in dust
κ2038I cover with dust
κ2039dust
κ2040dust-cloud
κ2041dust yourself
κ2042they will cause dust
κ2043arena
κ2044arena

Suda/Κ kappa/κ2040

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Κονίσαλος

dust-cloud

Translated by Nick Nicholas23 Jan 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

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2 notes · 33 words

Translation

[Meaning sc. raised-up] dust.¹
Or [sc. signifying] Konisalos, a Priapic demon; [so-called] from the fact that he does not shrink even from copulating in dust.²
Also [sc. attested is the adjective] konisa/leos ["dusty"].³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κονίσαλος· κονιορτός. ἢ Κονίσαλος, δαίμων Πριαπώδης· ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὀκνεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ κόνεως μίγνυσθαι. καὶ Κονισάλεος.

Betacode

*koni/salos: koniorto/s. h)\ *koni/salos, dai/mwn *priapw/dhs: e)k tou= mh\ o)knei=n kai\ e)pi\ ko/news mi/gnusqai. kai\ *konisa/leos.

Notes (2)

[1] Literally "dust-stirring". The term is Homeric, e.g. Homer, Iliad 3.13; see the scholia there.
2Aristophanes, Lysistrata 982 (a term applied to the Spartan herald who has just arrived: "what are you, man or konisalos?"). The etymological derivation is cited from the scholia there. ↩
3Antimachus fr. 39 Wyss. The term is cited by Herodian several times (e.g. De prosodia catholica p. 114 Lentz) and Hesychius. Note that its accent is mistakenly normalised as konisale/os in LSJ; the word's exceptional accentuation is noted in rho 242.

Neighbouring entries

κ2038ΚονίωI cover with dust κ2039Κόνιςdust κ2040Κονίσαλοςdust-cloud κ2041Κεκονῖσθαιdust yourself κ2042Κονίσσουσιthey will cause dust

Revision history3 revisions · last 2 Dec 2014

2 Dec 2014coding — Catharine Roth
11 Mar 2013tweaking — David Whitehead
25 Jan 2009more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
23 Jan 2009Translated — Nick Nicholas

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Κονίσαλος (Adler number kappa 2040), trans. Nick Nicholas, 23 Jan 2009. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/2040

Translation by Nick Nicholas for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗