Σπαργῶσα
swelling
Translated by William Hutton17 Mar 2014Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σπαργῶσα· ἀνθοῦσα, ἡ σπαραττομένη ὑπὸ θλίψεως καὶ δεομένη ἐκκρίσεώς τινος. πάλαι βουλομένους καὶ σπαργῶντας βοηθεῖν τοῖς οἰκείοις. καὶ αὖθις· οἷα πάλαι σπαργῶντες ἐπὶ τοὺς πολεμίους.
Betacode
*spargw=sa: a)nqou=sa, h( sparattome/nh u(po\ qli/yews kai\ deome/nh e)kkri/sew/s tinos. pa/lai boulome/nous kai\ spargw=ntas bohqei=n toi=s oi)kei/ois. kai\ au)=qis: oi(=a pa/lai spargw=ntes e)pi\ tou\s polemi/ous.
Notes (3)
- On
sparga/w and its range of literal and figurative applications, see generally LSJ s.v. - 1= Photius sigma439 Theodoridis, where one finds
h)\ ('or') in place of the Suda'sh( ('the feminine entity [which]'); the remainder of the sentence = Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 1002b8, probably commenting on Plato, Laws 692A, where the headword participle (here nominative singular feminine) appears in the accusative singular feminine, modifying the nouna)rxh/n ('beginning', 'principle'). The first gloss also = Synagoge sigma169. See also scholia to Plato, Symposium 206D, where the same participle appears in the dative singular neuter, and to Republic 460C, where it appears in the nominative singular masculine. Theodoridis points out instances ofspargw=sa itself in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.79.6 (= [DW] Fabius Pictor fr.1), and Plutarch, Moralia 320D, both on a she-wolf whose teats are swelling with milk. ↩ - 2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's opinion, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable; it exhibits the accusative plural masculine form of the headword. ↩
- 3Quotation (again, Adler supposes, via the Excerpta) again unidentifiable; it exhibits the nominative plural masculine form of the headword. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 27 Dec 2014
- tweak — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- typo, coding — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton