Ποτός

drinkable

Translated by Catharine Roth17 Feb 2013Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 40 words
[*poto/s means] that which is being drunk. But po/tos [is another name for] a symposium.1
"When the drinking had become intense, the host, laying a trap, was drinking little himself but ordering the servants to pour a lot for them."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ποτός· τὸ πινόμενον. Πότος δὲ τὸ συμπόσιον. σφοδροῦ δὲ πότου γενομένου, ἐνεδρεύων ὁ ἑστιάτωρ αὐτὸς μὲν ὀλίγον ἔπινεν, αὐτοῖς δὲ πολὺ ἐγχεῖν τοῖς θεράπουσιν ἐκέλευε.

Betacode
*poto/s: to\ pino/menon. *po/tos de\ to\ sumpo/sion. sfodrou= de\ po/tou genome/nou, e)nedreu/wn o( e(stia/twr au)to\s me\n o)li/gon e)/pinen, au)toi=s de\ polu\ e)gxei=n toi=s qera/pousin e)ke/leue.

Notes (2)

  1. 1i.e. same spelling but a difference between, respectively, oxytone and paroxytone. Same gloss in Philoponus, Differences; cf. Ammonius, and scholia on Aristophanes, Clouds 57, and on Lucian (90.19 Rabe -- on Lucian, Gallus 12). ↩
  2. 2Quotation (illustrative of po/tos) again at sigma 1753 but with different wording there, including the name of 'the host': Parsondes the Mede. Jacoby, following earlier scholars, suggests adding both this material and epsilon 1604 to the end of Nicolaus of Damascus [nu 393] FGrH 90 F4, but see the note on the latter entry. ↩

References


M. Petschenig, Wiener Studien 3 (1881) 297

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Revision history4 revisions · last 17 Oct 2021
  1. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  2. expanded a note — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. expanded notes; more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

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