Λαΐς
Lais
Translated by David Whitehead4 Jul 2004Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[genitive] *lai/dos : the courtesan [of that name]. See under chelone.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λαΐς, Λαΐδος· ἡ ἑταιρίς. ζήτει ἐν τῷ χελώνη.
Betacode
*lai/+s, *lai/+dos: h( e(tairi/s. zh/tei e)n tw=| xelw/nh.
Notes (1)
- 1chi 190. See also epsilon 3266, nu 16. ↩
Linked from11 entries
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- α1683Ἀμύξειςyou will scratch, you will tear[Meaning] you will grieve, you will wound, you will strike. And [there is] a proverb: "not even a thorn scratches good men." Also [sc. attested is the singular] a)/mucis ["a scratching"], [meaning] a tearing, a rending,…
- α2954Ἀπαίδευτοιuneducated, untrained[Meaning] ignorant. Disorderly. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "more uneducated than Philonides of Melite". This Philonides was not only big, but also unlearned and swinish. Aristophanes mocks him as a man who had…
- δ1519Δρέπεταιharvests, is being harvested[Meaning he/she/it] reaps/is being reaped, gathers/is being gathered, plucks from flowers/is being plucked from flowers. "For whom more noble suitors than for the bride, [sc. Helen] daughter of Tyndareus, gathering…
- ε3266Ἑταῖραι ΚορίνθιαιCorinthian courtesansLais, Cyrene, Leaina, Sinope, Pyrrhine, Scione, Thracian Rhodopis, the fellow-slave of Aesop the story-teller, who after being freed stayed in Egypt [sc. were all courtesans]. Aristophanes says in Wealth: "and they say…
- η161Ἤκαχεςyou caused grief [to][Meaning] you caused distress [to], you led astray. "Ah, how great a mind of youths you have distressed! But behold, you dwell in lovely Lethe, having been laid in the earth." [This is written] about Lais the courtesan.
- κ1525Κηώδηςfragrant[Meaning] perfumed with incense. Also [sc. attested in the dative] khw/enti ["in a fragrant"], [meaning] in a sweet-smelling, in one perfumed with incense. "The moistened bones always with fragrant myrrh, and the oiled…
- λ789Λύζειsobs violently, wails, hiccupsIf [spelled] with a zeta, [it means] o)lolu/zei ["he/she/it cries aloud"]; but if without the a zeta [i.e. as lu/ei], [it means] a)lu/ei ["he/she/it is distraught"], that is, he/she/it is sorely troubled. Or lu/zei…
- ν16ΝαΐςNaisA certain courtesan, whom Lysias and Aristophanes mention. In Wealth, [it is] obvious that where we find "does Nais not love Philonides on account of you?", this certain people have failed to recognize and have written…
- χ190Χελώνηtortoise[Meaning] the terrestrial animal, the shell-back; also the marine one; also the name of a battle formation; also a military fashion, from which there are 'tortoise sheds', siege machine, and rams. The Thessalian women,…
- χ585Χρυσοχάλινονgold-bridled[Meaning] that which is brilliant, pleasing. "[Lais] no longer sees the gold-bridled light of the sun."
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Revision history3 revisions · last 27 Mar 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more x-refs — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead