Σαυνίων
of javelins, of staffs
Translated by Ronald Allen5 Aug 2013Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[sc. A saunion is] a kind of standard, or of pennant.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σαυνίων· εἶδος σημαίας, ἢ φλαμούλου.
Betacode
*sauni/wn: ei)=dos shmai/as, h)\ flamou/lou.
Notes (1)
- Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss AF.
The headword is a neuter noun in the genitive plural; cf. generally LSJ s.v.sau/nion . It must be quoted from somewhere, and there are suitable instances in (e.g.) Diodorus Siculus and Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Roman Antiquities, but in the 'javelin' sense (#1 in LSJ; #2 is membrum virile, in Cratinus). Later -- see next note --, the connotation seems to change to a banner attached to such a staff, and the Suda's instance must be an unidentifiable one of that kind. - 1The first gloss gives a feminine noun in the genitive singular; see generally LSJ s.v.
shmai/a . The second gloss, an alternative spelling of a later Hellenized form from the Latin flammeolum, flammula (veil, banner, pennant), is a neuter noun in the genitive singular; cf. Sophocles, vol. II, s.v.fla/mmoulon, -ou, to\ . [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms V omitsshmai/as h)\ (leaving a kind of pennant), and that ms M transmits the alternative spellingflamou/llou .] ↩
References
E.A. Sophocles, Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, vols. I and II, 1957
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Revision history4 revisions · last 11 Oct 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen