Ληκύθιον
flask, oil-flask
Translated by Catharine Roth5 Apr 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A vessel.1
"[He/she] had a flask hidden in [his/her] sash, in which the deadly drug was."2
And Aristophanes [writes]: "not according to your word will I scrape each phrase, but I will destroy the prologues from [ = with] your oil-flask." For they used to speak of shabby things [sc. with diminutive forms such as]kwda/rion ["little sheepskin"], lhku/qion ["little oil-flask"], qula/kion ["little bag"].3
"[He/she] had a flask hidden in [his/her] sash, in which the deadly drug was."2
And Aristophanes [writes]: "not according to your word will I scrape each phrase, but I will destroy the prologues from [ = with] your oil-flask." For they used to speak of shabby things [sc. with diminutive forms such as]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ληκύθιον· ἀγγεῖον. εἶχε δὲ ἐν τῇ ζώνῃ ληκύθιον παρηρτημένον, ἐν ᾧ τὸ φάρμακον ἦν τὸ θανάσιμον. καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης· οὐ κατ' ἔπος γέ σου κνίσω τὸ ῥῆμἄκαστον, ἀλλ' ἀπὸ ληκυθίου σου τοὺς προλόγους διαφθερῶ. μικροπρεπῶς γὰρ ἔλεγον κωδάριον, ληκύθιον, θυλάκιον.
Betacode
*lhku/qion: a)ggei=on. ei)=xe de\ e)n th=| zw/nh| lhku/qion parhrthme/non, e)n w(=| to\ fa/rmakon h)=n to\ qana/simon. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: ou) kat' e)/pos ge/ sou kni/sw to\ r(h=ma)/kaston, a)ll' a)po\ lhkuqi/ou sou tou\s prolo/gous diafqerw=. mikroprepw=s ga\r e)/legon kwda/rion, lhku/qion, qula/kion.
Notes (3)
- cf. generally lambda 438, lambda 439.
- 1Adler reports parallel entries in the Laurentian and Ambrosian lexica. ↩
- 2Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 23 Habrich. ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Frogs 1198-1200 (web address 1), with scholion on 1203; cf. kappa 1861. Aeschylus ridicules the prologues of Euripides (cf. omicron 883). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- κ1861Κνέφειat dusk, at twilight[Meaning] in darkness. From the nominative kne/fos. Thus Aelian [sc. uses the word]. "Not according to your word will I scrape each phrase, but from your lekythion I will destroy the prologues."
- κ2018Κομπολακύθουbraggart's, of a braggart[Meaning] of an idle boaster and vainglorious [man]. The word is altered and transformed. For the flask [lhku/qion] came from the [verb] lakei=n ["to crackle"]. For lhkui+/zein [means] to shout and make a sound more…
- λ439Λήκυθοςlekythos, oil-flaskFeminine in Aristophanes. "[He] who paints the oil-flasks for the dead." The best of the painters [sc. would do this]. For they used to paint such things on memorial objects. And [sc. this term also occurs] elsewhere:…
- ο208Ὄλπηoil-flaskA lekythos. In effect being a sort of e)laio/ph, because of the oil [e)/laion] being monitored [o)pipeu/esqai] through it. "Since this is your birthday, [son of Simon], Krinagoras sends me with a happy heart as a…
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