Συηνία

swinishness

Translated by Catharine Roth4 May 2014Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 40 words
[suhni/a] and kuhni/a: [meaning] ignorance, awkwardness. [Used thus] in Pherekrates.1 And Plato the philosopher [calls] behaving ignorantly and doing something swinish suhnei=n ["to act swinishly"].2
Also [sc. attested is] *Suhni/a, a city [of that name]. But sui/+nh [is] a fig-tree.3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Συηνία καὶ Κυηνία· ἀμαθία, σκαιότης. παρὰ Φερεκράτει. καὶ συηνεῖν Πλάτων ὁ φιλόσοφος τὸ ἀμαθῶς ἀναστρέφεσθαι καὶ συῶδές τι ποιεῖν. καὶ Συηνία, πόλις. Συΐνη δὲ συκέα.

Betacode
*suhni/a kai\ *kuhni/a: a)maqi/a, skaio/ths. para\ *ferekra/tei. kai\ suhnei=n *pla/twn o( filo/sofos to\ a)maqw=s a)nastre/fesqai kai\ suw=de/s ti poiei=n. kai\ *suhni/a, po/lis. *sui/+nh de\ suke/a.

Notes (3)

  1. 1Pherecrates [phi 212] fr. 237 Kock, 271 K.-A. But Kuster and others, with good reason, emend the second of these nouns to u(hni/a; cf. upsilon 81. ↩
  2. 2Likewise in Photius, Lexicon sigma679 (taken to come from Aelius Dionysius sigma41), and later in Etymologicum Magnum 733.29; cf. also a scholion on Aristophanes, Peace 928. (Aristophanes uses there the noun u(hni/a; Plato, at Theaetetus 166C, uses the verb u(hnei=s.) ↩
  3. 3The city is Syene (*suh/nh) in Egypt; su+i/nh, though, looks like the feminine nominative singular of su/i+nos "swinish, porcine." See already at sigma 1317. ↩

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σ1316Συέδρων(from) Syedraσ1317ΣυηναῖοςSuenaios, Syenianσ1318Συηνίαswinishnessσ1319Σύινονlardσ1320Συκάζεινto gather figs
Revision history4 revisions · last 27 May 2016
  1. coding — David Whitehead
  2. tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — Catharine Roth
  4. Revised — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

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