Ὀαρισμοί

intimate chats

Translated by Catharine Roth6 Jul 2001Vetting: high7 revisions

2 words

[Meaning] conversations.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὀαρισμοί· διαλογισμοί.

Betacode

*)oarismoi/: dialogismoi/.

Same entry in other lexica; references at Photius omicron3 Theodoridis.
The headword comes from o)ari/zw, apparently not in its sense of 'flirt, talk love' but rather 'converse in intimate privacy'; cf. omicron 2 & omicron 4. See LSJ entry at web address 1, and the articles of B. Mader in Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos III (fasc. 16, 1997) 480-82.
According to Hesiod, Works and Days 789 (web address 2) one of the faults of a boy born on a particular day will be his liking for surreptitious o)arismoi/.

Revision history7 revisions · last 20 Dec 2020

20 Dec 2020tweaked link — Catharine Roth
20 Jun 2013another note — David Whitehead
20 Jun 2013more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
25 Dec 2009cosmetics — Catharine Roth
6 May 2002Slight modification to Headword, addition to definition in notes, addition of reference to Homer lexicon — Robert Dyer
19 Dec 2001Revised — Catharine Roth
7 Jul 2001augmented note — David Whitehead
6 Jul 2001Translated — Catharine Roth