Σιλλαίνει
insults, lampoons
Translated by Tony Natoli23 Mar 2003Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] mocks at, makes fun of [someone/something] through the eyes,1 and mocks.
For a sillos [is] a mime, or a reproach, and also abuse.
And scoffing.2
And one who writes such things [is] a writer of lampoons [sillographos], [as] was Timon of Phlius, a philosopher of the Pyrrhonic school.3
For a sillos [is] a mime, or a reproach, and also abuse.
And scoffing.2
And one who writes such things [is] a writer of lampoons [sillographos], [as] was Timon of Phlius, a philosopher of the Pyrrhonic school.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σιλλαίνει· μυλλαίνει, διὰ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν σκώπτει, καὶ μυλλίζει. Σίλλος γὰρ ὁ μῖμος, ἢ ὁ μῶμος, καὶ ἡ κακολογία. καὶ ὁ χλευασμός. καὶ ὁ ταύτας γράφων σιλλογράφος ἦν Τίμων Φλιάσιος, φιλόσοφος τῆς Πύρρωνος ἀγωγῆς.
Betacode
*sillai/nei: mullai/nei, dia\ tw=n o)fqalmw=n skw/ptei, kai\ mulli/zei. *si/llos ga\r o( mi=mos, h)\ o( mw=mos, kai\ h( kakologi/a. kai\ o( xleuasmo/s. kai\ o( tau/tas gra/fwn sillogra/fos h)=n *ti/mwn *flia/sios, filo/sofos th=s *pu/rrwnos a)gwgh=s.
Notes (3)
- The headword appears with the same glossing in other lexica and is evidently quoted from somewhere; probably Diogenes Laertius 9.111 on Timon (mentioned later in the entry).
- 1The word
si/llos can mean squint-eyed (see LSJ at web address 1), besides its 'lampoon' sense about to be given. ↩ - 2cf. sigma 415. ↩
- 3See tau 631, and cf. tau 630. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from5 entries
- μ1079Μῖμοςactor, imitator, mimicAlso [sc. attested is the related verb] mimou=mai; with accusative.
- σ411ΣιλαίνωI goad, I teaseThe [verb that means] I make horses move.
- σ414ΣιληνόςSilenus, Silenos[Meaning] one who is silly, and a babbler. [Formed] out of the [verb] silai/nw, the [one that means] I talk nonsense.
- σ415Σίλλοςlampoon[Meaning] mockery/scoffing.
- τ631ΤίμωνTimonFrom Phlius, and himself a philosopher, of the Pyrrhonic school, who wrote the so-called Silli or censures of philosophers in three books.
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Revision history5 revisions · last 18 Feb 2022
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, wrong note numbers reported by Andrew Smith — Catharine Roth
- added x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Tony Natoli