Φριμασσομένη

Notes (3)

1. 1The headword and gloss derive from Synagoge phi200 (Cunningham); see also Photius, Lexicon phi300 (Theodoridis), and similarly elsewhere. The headword is the present participle, feminine nominative singular, of the middle verb frima/ssomai. Rare in classical literature (see generally LSJ s.v.) but favoured by some Byzantine authors, it refers to a spirited state expressed in noise and movement, typically in reference to horses. The gloss may be partly inspired by Herodotus 3.87; see phi 714. ↩
2. 2An unidentifiable quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus; she also notes Toup's opinion that a)/dendra 'treeless' would make better sense as its opposite kata/dendra). In her consolidated addenda and corrigenda, Adler also notes a very similar quotation in Etymologicum Gudianum 557.50 (using the masculine nominative plural form of the headword) attributed by de Stefani to Menander Protector. The subject of this sentence, the feminine singular noun h( i(/ppos, can mean either a single female horse or 'the horse' in the collective sense of 'cavalry'. ↩
3. 3Another quotation from an unidentified work, which Adler also regards as transmitted by the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. The headword does not occur in this sentence, which illustrates a usage of the cognate masculine noun friagmo/s, a 'snorting'. ↩