Κωνειαζομέναις

women dosed with hemlock

Translated by David Whitehead19 Nov 2006Vetting: high4 revisions

1 note · 12 words

[Meaning women] drinking a lethal drug.¹ For hemlock [is] a lethal poison.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κωνειαζομέναις· θανάσιμον φάρμακον πινούσαις. Κώνειον γὰρ θανάσιμον δηλητήριον.

Betacode

*kwneiazome/nais: qana/simon fa/rmakon pinou/sais. *kw/neion ga\r qana/simon dhlhth/rion.

Notes (1)

Same entry elsewhere; see the references at Photius, Lexicon kappa1318 Theodoridis.
cf. kappa 2034.
1Dative plurals, the headword one evidently quoted from somewhere; very probably (as twice in Stobaeus) from a mention of someone or something 'in' Menander's comedy of this name. ↩

Linked from1 entry

κ2034ΚόνιονhemlockA poisonous plant. [It can be spelled] with omicron for metrical reasons. "For you simply received hemlock at the hands of the Athenians, but it was they who drank it down, through your mouth".

Neighbouring entries

κ2273Κωμύδριονhamlet κ2274Κώμυθαhay-bundle, sheaf κ2275Κωνειαζομέναιςwomen dosed with hemlock κ2276Κωνῆσαι πίθονto pitch (?) a wine-jar κ2277Κωνοειδέςconical, cone-shaped

Revision history4 revisions · last 2 May 2016

2 May 2016Revised — David Whitehead
15 Mar 2013Revised — David Whitehead
20 Nov 2006x-ref — David Whitehead
20 Nov 2006set status — Catharine Roth
19 Nov 2006Translated — David Whitehead