Ὀβελίσκος

spit

Translated by Catharine Roth2 Oct 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

3 notes · 52 words
Also [sc. attested is the diminutive] o)beli/skos ["small spit"]: [meaning] a skewer.1
Xenophon [writes]: "someone from within struck with an ox-piercing spit right through the thigh of the nearest man."2
And [there is] a proverb: "the heat of the spit." In reference to those who choose the worse instead of the better.3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὀβελός· καὶ Ὀβελίσκος, ἡ σούβλα. Ξενοφῶν· ἐπάταξεν ἔνδον βουπόρῳ τις ὀβελίσκῳ διαμπερὲς τὸν μηρὸν τοῦ ἐγγυτάτω. καὶ παροιμία· Τὸ θερμὸν τοῦ ὀβελοῦ. ἐπὶ τῶν τὰ χείρονα ἀντὶ τῶν κρειττόνων αἱρουμένων.

Betacode
*)obelo/s: kai\ *)obeli/skos, h( sou/bla. *cenofw=n: e)pa/tacen e)/ndon boupo/rw| tis o)beli/skw| diampere\s to\n mhro\n tou= e)gguta/tw. kai\ paroimi/a: *to\ qermo\n tou= o)belou=. e)pi\ tw=n ta\ xei/rona a)nti\ tw=n kreitto/nwn ai(roume/nwn.

Notes (3)

  1. 1cf. Etymologicum Magnum 613.2. From the non-classical souvla (used here as the gloss) comes the modern Greek souvlakia. ↩
  2. 2Xenophon, Anabasis 7.8.14 (web address 1). ↩
  3. 3Again at tau 734; cf. Photius s.v. to\ qermo/n; Zenobius 6.19. ↩

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Neighbouring entries

ο4Ὀαριστύςchat, close exchange, give-and-takeο5Ὀβελίας ἄρτοςspit-bread, penny-breadο6Ὀβελίσκοςspitο7Ὀβολόςobolο8Ὀβολοῦ κοριάννοις τὴν βουλὴν ἀναλαβὼν ἐλήλυθαhere I am after winning over the council with an obol's worth of coriander-seed
Revision history6 revisions · last 20 Jun 2013
  1. more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  2. another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  3. added link — Catharine Roth
  4. betacode cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  5. modified translation — David Whitehead
  6. added x-ref and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. Translated — Catharine Roth

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