Πώμαλα
where?; not at all
Translated by Catharine Roth6 May 2013Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Meaning whence? Like ou)damw=s ["not at all"]. The [component] pw= ["where"] is Doric, used instead of po/qen ["whence"]; but the [component] mala is either redundant or said customarily in the [word] pw/mala , like ou) ma/la .
[sc. Also] meaningou) ["not"] or meaning ou)do/lws ["not at all"]. It is Attic.
Lysias in the Letter to (?)Asybaros [writes]: "for the women nobly said that they had not danced at all, since it was not even right for them to drink and leave the symposium."1 They were[?].2
[sc. Also] meaning
Lysias in the Letter to (?)Asybaros [writes]: "for the women nobly said that they had not danced at all, since it was not even right for them to drink and leave the symposium."1 They were[?].2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πώμαλα· ἀντὶ τοῦ πόθεν. οἷον οὐδαμῶς. ἔστι δὲ τὸ μὲν πῶ Δώριον, τιθέμενον ἀντὶ τοῦ πόθεν· τὸ δὲ μαλα ἢ παρέλκει, ἢ ἐν συνηθείᾳ λεγόμενον ἐν τῷ πώμαλα, οἷον οὐ μάλα. ἀντὶ τοῦ οὐ ἢ ἀντὶ τοῦ οὐδόλως. ἔστι δὲ Ἀττικόν. Λυσίας ἐν τῇ πρὸς Ἀσύβαρον ἐπιστολῇ· γενναίως γὰρ αἱ γυναῖκες πώμαλα ἔφασαν ὠρχῆσθαι αὐτάς, δέον οὐδὲ πιούσας ἀπηλλάχθαι τοῦ συμποσίου. ἐγένοντο.
Betacode
*pw/mala: a)nti\ tou= po/qen. oi(=on ou)damw=s. e)/sti de\ to\ me\n pw= *dw/rion, tiqe/menon a)nti\ tou= po/qen: to\ de\ mala h)\ pare/lkei, h)\ e)n sunhqei/a| lego/menon e)n tw=| pw/mala, oi(=on ou) ma/la. a)nti\ tou= ou) h)\ a)nti\ tou= ou)do/lws. e)/sti de\ *)attiko/n. *lusi/as e)n th=| pro\s *)asu/baron e)pistolh=|: gennai/ws ga\r ai( gunai=kes pw/mala e)/fasan w)rxh=sqai au)ta/s, de/on ou)de\ piou/sas a)phlla/xqai tou= sumposi/ou. e)ge/nonto.
Notes (2)
- For this headword see also pi 2177, and generally LSJ s.v.
pw= , II. The first two of the present entry's three parts has parallels in Harpokration (pi132 Keaney), Hesychius (pi4504), Orion [Author, Myth] s.v., Photius' Lexicon (pi1595 Theodoridis), and a scholion on Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 66. - 1Lysias fr. 254 Sauppe, now 451 Carey OCT. It is preserved only here, and contains some striking features, chiefly the role/status of the women referred to, and the otherwise unattested name Asybaros. (The variant Asobaros, reported by Adler as the reading of ms G, is no better. DW proposes ASTYBAROS. The name is not attested in Athens but cf. the early Median king called Astybaros or Astibara(s) mentioned in Ctesias, Diodorus Siculus and elsewhere). ↩
- 2Küster deleted
e)ge/nonto , for obvious reasons. [Adler notes Dindorf's observation that singulare)ge/neq' occurs in the fragment of Aristophanes quoted by Harpokration (cf. under pi 2177), but that scarcely seems enough to save the plural here.] ↩
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