Πάμβορον

all-devouring

Translated by William Hutton5 Jun 2011Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 19 words

[Meaning] foul-smelling.¹ Josephus [writes]: "the all-devouring thing produced pleasant food out of it[self]."² Referring to the lion and honeycombs.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πάμβορον· κάκοσμον. Ἰώσηπος· τὸ πάμβορον γεγενήκοι βορὰν ἡδεῖαν ἐξ αὐτοῦ. τὸν λέοντα σημαίνων καὶ κηρία μέλιτος.

Betacode

*pa/mboron: ka/kosmon. *)iw/shpos: to\ pa/mboron gegenh/koi bora\n h(dei=an e)c au)tou=. to\n le/onta shmai/nwn kai\ khri/a me/litos.

cf. generally pi 124.
1= Eudemus 171.23 Niese. The gloss is clearly a misunderstanding. Kuster (cited by Adler) suggests that it is inspired by the description of the dung-beetle in Aristophanes, Peace 38, as "foul-smelling and gluttonous" (ka/kosmon kai\ boro/n), though it could just as easily be a misapprehension of the paradox in the riddle itself (foul-smelling/sweet vs. pleasant/unpleasant). ↩
2Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 5.290 (web address 1): a version of Samson's riddle found in Judges 14:14. ↩

B. Niese, "Excerpta ex Eudemi codice Parisino n. 2635," Philologus suppl. 15 (1922): 145‑160

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