Τελενικῆσαι
to Telenicize
Translated by David Whitehead9 Dec 2002Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τελενικῆσαι· ἐν Σερίφοις τὸ κενῶσαι. ἀπὸ Τελενίκου τινός, ὡς τὸ εἰκός, πένητος παντελῶς. καὶ λέγεταί τις Τελενίκιος ἠχώ, ἐκ μεταφορᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν κενῶν ἀγγείων.
Betacode
*telenikh=sai: e)n *seri/fois to\ kenw=sai. a)po\ *teleni/kou tino/s, w(s to\ ei)ko/s, pe/nhtos pantelw=s. kai\ le/getai/ tis *teleni/kios h)xw/, e)k metafora=s a)po\ tw=n kenw=n a)ggei/wn.
Notes (2)
- = Photius tau128 Theodoridis. The headword infinitive is Crates fr. 217 Kock (232 K.-A.), from his play named here.
- 1The transmitted
*seri/fois should be*serifi/ois , as in other lexica. (Seriphos was a small, and proverbially insignificant, Aegean island.) ↩ - 2cf. Apostolius 16.23 (on a proverb 'poorer than Telenikos'). ↩
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