Φρενοβλαβής

addle-brained

Translated by William Hutton18 Mar 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

1 note · 34 words
[Meaning] one whose wits are addled, an insane person.
"When Leo was emperor of the Romans, the Ethiopians brought giraffes and two addle-brained men with very short bodies, the sort that Homer called pygmies."1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φρενοβλαβής· ὁ τὰς φρένας βεβλαμμένος, ὁ παράφρων. ἐπὶ Λέοντος τοῦ βασιλέως Ῥωμαίων Αἰθίοπες ἐκόμισαν καμηλοπαρδάλεις καὶ δύο ἐν βραχυτάτοις σώμασιν ἄνδρας φρενοβλαβεῖς, οὓς δὴ πυγμαίους Ὅμηρος ὠνόμασε.

Betacode
*frenoblabh/s: o( ta\s fre/nas beblamme/nos, o( para/frwn. e)pi\ *le/ontos tou= basile/ws *(rwmai/wn *ai)qi/opes e)ko/misan kamhloparda/leis kai\ du/o e)n braxuta/tois sw/masin a)/ndras frenoblabei=s, ou(\s dh\ pugmai/ous *(/omhros w)no/mase.

Notes (1)

  1. For addle-brained-ness see already phi 702.
  2. 1Homer, Iliad 3.6. The quotation as a whole is reckoned to be Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 128 Zintzen (78 Asmus), though Adler had wanted to attribute it to 'a Byzantine chronicle'. For Leo(n), see lambda 267. ↩

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φ701Φρενίτιςphrenitisφ702Φρενοβλάβειαderangement, madnessφ703Φρενοβλαβήςaddle-brainedφ704Φρενόθενfrom the mindφ705Φρενόληπτοςaddle-witted
Revision history5 revisions · last 28 Mar 2023
  1. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. modified and expanded notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. added notes and keywords — David Whitehead
  6. Translated — William Hutton

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