Φοῖτος
errancy
Translated by William Hutton10 Feb 2014Vetting: high1 revision
Translation
[Meaning] madness.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φοῖτος· ἡ μανία.
Betacode
*foi=tos: h( mani/a.
Notes
- The headword is a masculine noun in the nominative singular. This form of the noun is attested only in lexica, scholia, etc. See Hesychius phi723 and phi725, Synagoge phi150, ps.-Herodian (Epimerismi 147.8), Theognostus 138.15, and various scholia: to Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes 661 (where the headword occurs in the dative singular); to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.55; to Oppian, Halieutica 1.45; and to Sophocles, Ajax 59. See also phi 809.
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- φ809Φοιτῶνταwandering[Meaning him] having become vehemently insane [sc. and] being insane; for foi=tos ['wandering' (n.)] is insanity. Either [sc. because he was] going around among the flocks on account of insanity, or [because he was]…
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