Τίτθη
nurse
Translated by Ronald Allen26 May 2011Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] nourisher, mammy.1
"But as much as the lads had frittered away through laziness and had wasted by rashness, you should send them off to their wet-nurses to wipe their noses and to the females to bathe them, and let us leave the delicate ones alone with these women to chatter and prattle about weft and warps [...]."2
Also [sc. attested is]titqei/a ["nursing"], a caring treatment.3
"But as much as the lads had frittered away through laziness and had wasted by rashness, you should send them off to their wet-nurses to wipe their noses and to the females to bathe them, and let us leave the delicate ones alone with these women to chatter and prattle about weft and warps [...]."2
Also [sc. attested is]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τίτθη· τροφός, μάμμη. ὅσα δὲ ἀργίᾳ μεμάρανται καὶ ῥᾳθυμίᾳ διέφθαρται μειράκια, ταῖς τίτθαις ἀπομύττειν καὶ ταῖς γυναιξὶ λούειν ἀποπέμψατε, καὶ θρυπτόμενα παρὰ ταύταις στωμύλλεσθαι καὶ λαλεῖν περὶ κρόκης καὶ στημόνων ἐάσωμεν. καὶ Τιτθεία, ἡ ἐπιμέλεια.
Betacode
*ti/tqh: trofo/s, ma/mmh. o(/sa de\ a)rgi/a| mema/rantai kai\ r(a|qumi/a| die/fqartai meira/kia, tai=s ti/tqais a)pomu/ttein kai\ tai=s gunaici\ lou/ein a)pope/myate, kai\ qrupto/mena para\ tau/tais stwmu/llesqai kai\ lalei=n peri\ kro/khs kai\ sthmo/nwn e)a/swmen. kai\ *titqei/a, h( e)pime/leia.
Notes (3)
- The headword (illustrated by the quotation given, where it appears in the dative plural) is a feminine noun in the nominative (and vocative) singular; see generally LSJ s.v., and cf. tau 687, tau 689.
- 1The first gloss is a masculine and feminine noun in the nominative singular; see generally LSJ s.v. The second gloss, a child's word for mother, is a feminine noun in the nominative (and vocative) singular; see generally LSJ s.v. In her cricitcal apparatus Adler reports that ms G lacks this second gloss, and other lexica too have only 'nourisher': see the references at Photius tau331 Theodoridis. ↩
- 2The quotation, already at sigma 1154 and in part at pi 1677, is unidentifiable; Adler notes Cobet's attribution of it to Aelian. [She also reports that, instead of the imperative given here, ms G transmits
a)pepe/myate , the aorist indicative active, second person plural, you sent away; also that ms A givesqrupto/menai , the feminine plural participle, instead of the neuter given here.] ↩ - 3For this additional lemma and gloss, Adler cites Lexicon Ambrosianum 453. ↩
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- π1677Πλαγγόνωνhair-nets, wax dolls"Let us leave the delicate lads alone with their wet-nurses to chatter and to talk about weft and warps and (?)hair-nets."
- σ1154Στωμύλοςchattering, loud-mouthed, talkative, wordy[Meaning] loquacious, very elegant, persuasively speaking, readily convincing, [sc. someone who is] handy with arguments, a rogue, a flatterer. Babble [sc. is being spoken]. Aristophanes [writes]: "these are…
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Revision history3 revisions · last 14 Jan 2014
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- betacode typo — Catharine Roth
- more x-refs; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen