Λαβαῖς
with handles
Translated by Catharine Roth31 Oct 2003Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] with touchings, or with pretexts, or with blame.1
But [sc. also also attested is the phrase] "bi-mouthed handles", [meaning] the ears of the mixing-bowl, or those which have openings on both sides; or because these [handles] are on both sides of the mouth [of the jar]; or those which have some kind of animal faces on both sides. "Crown their [tops] and their bi-mouthed handles." That is crown the head of the bowls also.2
[Note] that Bagoas the Egyptian slew Okhos the Persian and ate his flesh, but the bones he made into handles of knives.3
And elsewhere: "handles of philosophy", [i.e.] arithmetic and geometry.4
But [sc. also also attested is the phrase] "bi-mouthed handles", [meaning] the ears of the mixing-bowl, or those which have openings on both sides; or because these [handles] are on both sides of the mouth [of the jar]; or those which have some kind of animal faces on both sides. "Crown their [tops] and their bi-mouthed handles." That is crown the head of the bowls also.2
[Note] that Bagoas the Egyptian slew Okhos the Persian and ate his flesh, but the bones he made into handles of knives.3
And elsewhere: "handles of philosophy", [i.e.] arithmetic and geometry.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λαβαῖς, ἐπαφαῖς, ἢ ἀφορμαῖς, ἢ μέμψεσι. Λαβὰς δὲ ἀμφιστόμους, τὰ ὦτα τοῦ κρατῆρος, ἤτοι τὰς ἀμφοτέρωθεν ἐστομωμένας· ἢ διὰ τὸ ἑκατέρωθεν τοῦ στόματος ταύτας εἶναι· ἢ τὰς πρόσωπά τινα θηρίων ἑκατέρωθεν ἐχούσας. ὧν κατέρεψον καὶ λαβὰς ἀμφιστόμους. τουτέστιν ἔρεψον καὶ τῶν κρατήρων τὴν κεφαλήν. ὅτι Βαγώας ὁ Αἰγύπτιος ἔσφαξεν Ὦχον τὸν Πέρσην καὶ τὰ μὲν κρέατα ἔφαγε, τὰ δὲ ὀστέα μαχαιρῶν εἰργάσατο λαβάς. καὶ αὖθις· λαβαὶ φιλοσοφίας, ἀριθμητικὴ καὶ γεωμετρική.
Betacode
*labai=s, e)pafai=s, h)\ a)formai=s, h)\ me/myesi. *laba\s de\ a)mfisto/mous, ta\ w)=ta tou= krath=ros, h)/toi ta\s a)mfote/rwqen e)stomwme/nas: h)\ dia\ to\ e(kate/rwqen tou= sto/matos tau/tas ei)=nai: h)\ ta\s pro/swpa/ tina qhri/wn e(kate/rwqen e)xou/sas. w(=n kate/reyon kai\ laba\s a)mfisto/mous. toute/stin e)/reyon kai\ tw=n krath/rwn th\n kefalh/n. o(/ti *bagw/as o( *ai)gu/ptios e)/sfacen *)=wxon to\n *pe/rshn kai\ ta\ me\n kre/ata e)/fage, ta\ de\ o)ste/a maxairw=n ei)rga/sato laba/s. kai\ au)=qis: labai\ filosofi/as, a)riqmhtikh\ kai\ gewmetrikh/.
Notes (4)
- 1The headword, a dative plural, appears with these or similar glosses in other lexica too (see the references at Photius lambda2 Theodoridis); it must be quoted from somewhere (but not lambda 226 = tau 1197). ↩
- 2Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 473 (web address 1), and scholion. The scholiast's gloss implies the reading
kra=t' e)/reyon in preference tokate/reyon . ↩ - 3cf. alpha 3201, beta 15, omega 284. ↩
- 4Summary version of an aphorism of Xenocrates (xi 42, xi 43) in Diogenes Laertius 4.10: music, geometry and astronomy proffer "handles" by which to grasp philosophy. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history8 revisions · last 15 May 2016
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- supplied missing notes; augmented existing notes, and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth