Θερμόταται
hottest, very hot
Translated by David Whitehead5 Dec 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Θερμόταται· μέθυσοι. ὦ θερμόταται γυναῖκες, μέγα καπήλοις καλόν, ἡμῖν δὲ κακόν. ὅτι ἡ θυγάτηρ Φαραὼ ἡ τὸν Μωϋσῆν υἱοποιήσασα Θερμοῦθις ὠνομάζετο.
Betacode
*qermo/tatai: me/qusoi. w)= qermo/tatai gunai=kes, me/ga kaph/lois kalo/n, h(mi=n de\ kako/n. o(/ti h( quga/thr *faraw\ h( to\n *mwu+sh=n ui(opoih/sasa *qermou=qis w)noma/zeto.
Notes (2)
- The headword, feminine nominative plural of this superlative, is extracted from the quotation immediately following.
- 1An approximation of Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 735-737 (abridged: see web address 1), with scholion to 737. ↩
- 2Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 2.224-5 (web address 2); cf. mu 1348. (This material does not, of course, belong in the present entry but has merely become subsumed under it because of the woman's name.) ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 1 Jan 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented n.2 — David Whitehead
- added links, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead