Φῶκος

porpoise

Translated by David Whitehead28 Oct 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 58 words
Also [sc. attested is a proverb]: 'Phokos' meal'; [sc. it used] against those who, assembling for a feast, do themselves harm; for a certain Phokos, with a marrigeable daughter whom many were courting, put together meals and, in feasting the suitors, deferred the marriage. So they, enraged, killed Phokos at the party.1
But oxytone fwko/s [means] a container.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φῶκος. καὶ παροιμία· Φώκου ἔρανος· κατὰ τῶν εὐωχίας συναγόντων ἐπὶ τῷ ἑαυτῶν κακῷ· Φῶκος γάρ τις θυγατέρα ἔχων ἐπὶ γάμῳ, πολλῶν αὐτὴν μνηστευομένων, ἐράνους συνῆγε καὶ ἑστιῶν τοὺς μνηστῆρας ἀνεβάλλετο τὸν γάμον. ὀργισθέντες οὖν ἐκεῖνοι ἐν τῷ συμποσίῳ ἀπέκτειναν τὸν Φῶκον. Φωκὸς δὲ ὀξυτόνως, τὸ ἀγγεῖον.

Betacode
*fw=kos. kai\ paroimi/a: *fw/kou e)/ranos: kata\ tw=n eu)wxi/as sunago/ntwn e)pi\ tw=| e(autw=n kakw=|: *fw=kos ga/r tis qugate/ra e)/xwn e)pi\ ga/mw|, pollw=n au)th\n mnhsteuome/nwn, e)ra/nous sunh=ge kai\ e(stiw=n tou\s mnhsth=ras a)neba/lleto to\n ga/mon. o)rgisqe/ntes ou)=n e)kei=noi e)n tw=| sumposi/w| a)pe/kteinan to\n *fw=kon. *fwko\s de\ o)cuto/nws, to\ a)ggei=on.

Notes (2)

  1. The headword, though unglossed here, is glossed in Hesychius s.v. (as a dolphin-like sea creature). Aristotle calls it a fw/kaina.
  2. 1cf. Zenobius 6.37 and other paroemiographers; also Photius phi363 Theodoridis, with other references there. ↩
  3. 2Attested as such only here. ↩

Neighbouring entries

φ640ΦωκίωνοςPhokion's, Phocion'sφ641Φώκηsealφ642Φῶκοςporpoiseφ643ΦωκυλίδηςPhokylides, Phocylidesφ644Φωλάδιhole-lurking
Revision history4 revisions · last 17 Dec 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. typo; augmented notes — David Whitehead
  4. set status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

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