Ὀαριστύς
chat, close exchange, give-and-take
Translated by Catharine Roth6 Jul 2001Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a womanish throng.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀαριστύς· γυναικώδης ὅμιλος.
Betacode
*)oaristu/s: gunaikw/dhs o(/milos.
Notes
- The headword is an epic noun, from
o)ari/zw : LSJ entry at web address 1, and cf. omicron 2, omicron 3.
(The glossing phrase, here only, calls to mindgunaikoplhqh\s o(/milos in Aeschylus, Persians 121, used of women shoutingo)a= 'woe'.)
Apart from being the title assigned to Theocritus - or ps.-Theocritus - Idyll 27, this noun is used only in Homer's Iliad, twice of the rapid exchanges in battle (13.291, 17.228: web addresses 2 and 3), once of one of the pleasures caused by the power of Aphrodite's breast-band (14.216: web address 4). It is well translated by Robert Fagles (The Iliad of Homer, 1990) as "give-and-take". See omicron 2 and omicron 3, for the etymology and semantic history of the word, and the reasons why it sometimes refers to the give-and-take of lovers.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 4 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history7 revisions · last 20 Dec 2020
- tweaked links — Catharine Roth
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- streamlined notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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- Alterations to Headword and definition, additions to notes to connect to other entries on similar words and to links — Robert Dyer
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- augmented note; added keyword — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth