Πομφολυγοπαφλάσμασιν

in bubble-splutterings

Translated by William Hutton12 Jan 2013Vetting: high6 revisions

3 notes · 34 words
[Meaning] in the eddies of the waters. For 'bubbles' are blister-like eddies.1
From the [verb] to splutter.2
"Just as a bubble disappears when burst, so the memory of a prideful person perishes after death."3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πομφολυγοπαφλάσμασιν· ἐν ταῖς δίναις τῶν ὑδάτων. πομφόλυγες γὰρ αἱ φλυκταινώδεις δῖναι. ἀπὸ τοῦ παφλάζειν. ὥσπερ πομφόλυξ ῥαγεῖσα ἀφανίζεται, οὕτω μνήμη ὑπερηφάνου ὄλλυται μετὰ θάνατον.

Betacode
*pomfolugopafla/smasin: e)n tai=s di/nais tw=n u(da/twn. pomfo/luges ga\r ai( fluktainw/deis di=nai. a)po\ tou= pafla/zein. w(/sper pomfo/luc r(agei=sa a)fani/zetai, ou(/tw mnh/mh u(perhfa/nou o)/llutai meta\ qa/naton.

Notes (3)

  1. 1Aristophanes, Frogs 249 (where the dative plural headword occurs: web address 1), with comments derived from the scholia there. ↩
  2. 2cf. Etymologicum Magnum 682.14. ↩
  3. 3This quotation contains not the headword but one of its constituent nouns (for which see pi 2031, pi 2032). Tentatively attributed by Adler to Aelian, but now identifiable via the TLG as a probable approximation of Evagrius, De octo spiritibus malitiae PG 79.1164, or Antiochus Monachus, Pandecta scripturae sacrae 44. (The proverbial nature of the phrase does, though, leave open the possibility of yet another common or parallel source.) ↩

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π2031Πομφόλυγεςbubbles, blistersπ2032Πομφόλυξbubbleπ2033Πομφολυγοπαφλάσμασινin bubble-splutteringsπ2034Πονεύμενονperformingπ2035Πονεῖνto do
Revision history6 revisions · last 9 Oct 2021
  1. Revised — Catharine Roth
  2. added a link — Catharine Roth
  3. coding — David Whitehead
  4. tweaked n.3 — David Whitehead
  5. another note; another keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
  6. typo, status — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — William Hutton

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