title: Philogelos 63 and the Meaning of ἐώρα
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metadata.value: Zeltchenko, Vsevolod V.
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metadata.value: 2020-02-07T14:40:34Z
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metadata.value: 2020-02-07T14:40:34Z
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metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Vsevolod V. Zeltchenko. Philogelos 63 and the Meaning of ἐώρα. Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 310–317.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu20.2019.210
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17060
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metadata.value: In an unassuming story 63 from the Philogelos collection, a one-eyed governor goes εἰς ἐώραν,
  praising to his companion “the grapevines on the left side (of the road)”. A set of attested
  meanings of ἐώρα / αἰώρα (literally, ‘a hanging’, ‘swinging’) does not suit the context. The
  story is extant only in a longer variant of the collection; its first editor, J. F. Boissonade (1848),
  supposed that ἐώρα in this context means ‘grapes suspended from trees’. The successive commentators
  and translators, having accepted his idea, understand it as ‘a vineyard’; meanwhile,
  the Greek lexicons, from LSJ to F. Montanari, have ignored both Boissonade’s interpretation
  and the passage itself. The article stresses that Boissonade profited from an unmentioned gloss
  of G. Wakefield, surviving in the London (1821) and Parisian (1831) revisions of Thesaurus
  Graecae Linguae of Henri Estienne, as well as from the glossed passage Suda αι 261 Adler
  itself (a schoolroom interpolation in the text of Babr. 19). While in Ps.-Babrius the word is
  used in its common meaning (‘something hanging’), in the context of Philog. 63 one expects
  rather a statement of the purpose of the governor’s outing: the words “when he went out into
  the vineyard”, lacking any explanation whatever, make an ex abrupto beginning. Dismissing
  the interpretation of Boissonade, the author draws attention to the fact that in writers of
  the 5–6th c. ἐωρίζομαι (Malal. Chron. II, 8; V, 3 Thurn; cf. Hesych. ε 7751 Latte) and ἐώρησις
  (Ioseph. Hypomn. 46) are attested in the meanings ‘to take a walk’ and ‘a walk’ resp.; the same
  meaning should be supposed for ἐώρα in Philog. 63. In all probability, the semantic shift from
  ‘swinging’ to ‘walking’ was prompted by the usage in the Empire of αἰ-/ἐώρα, αἰ-/ἐώρησις as
  equivalents to the Latin gestatio — a therapeutic practice of a mild agitation of the patient’s
  body (be it in a carriage, a litter, on board a ship, or in a hammock). Medical prescriptions of
  doctors and literary works of their clients alike mention gestatio alongside walking, which may
  have contributed to a broadening of respective units.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Philogelos
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ἐώρα
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: gestatio
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Greek lexicology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Greek lexicography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Philogelos 63 and the Meaning of ἐώρα
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metadata.value: Article
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