προβασκάνιον
ἄμεινον γὰρ ἑαυτῷ φυλάττειν τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τοῦ ἑτέρων ἀφαιρεῖσθαι → for it is better to guard one's own freedom than to deprive another of his
English (LSJ)
τό, safeguard against witchcraft, amulet or scarecrow hung up before workshops or in fields. LXX Ep.Je.70, Plu.2.681f, Hsch. s.v. κεράμβηλον; = muttonius, Gloss. (also προβασκαντον, = muttonium, ib.); less correct than βασκάνιον, Phryn.68.
German (Pape)
[Seite 710] τό, Mittel gegen das Beschreien, Behexen, Amulet, Plut. Symp. 5, 7, 3; vgl. Lob. Phryn. 86; nach Phryn. bei B. A. p. 30 Ausdruck der ἀμαθεῖς für βασκάνιον; er erkl. es als ἀνθρωποειδὲς κατασκεύασμα, βραχὺ παρηλλαγμένον τὴν ἀνθρωπείαν φύσιν, ὃ πρὸ τῶν ἐργαστηρίων οἱ χειρώνακτες κρεμαννύουσι τοῦ μὴ βασκαίνεσθαι αὐτῶν τὴν ἐργασίαν; vgl. Poll. 7, 108. – Auch ein Popanz, um Thiere, bes. Vögel zu verscheuchen, Vogelscheuche, wozu man bes. hölzerne Priapusbilder nahm, vgl. Plut. a. a. O.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (τό) :
sorte d'amulette contre les maléfices.
Étymologie: πρό, βάσκανος.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
προβασκάνιον: τό, (βάσκᾰνος) φυλακτήριον κατὰ βασκανίας ἢ μαγείας, φυλακτήριον ὃ ἐξήρτων πρὸ τῶν ἐργαστηρίων αὐτῶν οἱ ἀρχαῖοι, Πλούτ. 2. 681F, Εὐστ. Πονημάτ. 41. 27, Ἡσύχ. ἐν λ. κεράμβηλον: ― Κατὰ τὸν Φρύν. σ. 86 ἔκδ. Λοβεκ.: «βασκάνιον λέγουσιν οἱ ἀρχαῖοι, οὐ προβασκάνιον μετὰ τῆς πρό· ἀδόκιμον γάρ», πρβλ. Α. Β. 30, 5.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
προβασκάνιον: (κᾰ) τό защита от злых чар, амулет Plut.
Translations
amulet
Arabic: تَمِيمَة, أُخْذَة, تَعْوِيذَة, حِجَاب, حِرْز, رُقْيَة; Armenian: հուռութք, հմայիլ; Azerbaijani: tumar, gözmuncuğu; Belarusian: амулет, талісман; Bengali: মাদুলি, কবচ; Bulgarian: амулет, талисман; Burmese: အဆောင်, အခံ; Catalan: amulet; Chinese Mandarin: 護身符, 護符, 護身符子, 辟邪物; Czech: amulet; Danish: amulet; Dutch: amulet; Esperanto: amuleto; Estonian: amulett; Finnish: amuletti; French: amulette; Galician: dixe, fetiche, corniño, bolerca, dómina, sapo, figa, amuleto; Georgian: თილისმა; German: Amulett; Greek: φυλαχτό; Ancient Greek: ἀντιπερίαμμα, βασκάνιον, ἔνδεσμα, παράρτημα, περίαμμα, περίαπτον, προβασκάνιον, φυλακτήριον; Greenlandic: aarnuaq; Hebrew: קָמֵעַ; Hiligaynon: antíng-ánting; Hindi: तावीज़, कवच; Hungarian: amulett; Indonesian: jimat; Italian: amuleto; Japanese: お守り, 護符, アミュレット; Jingpho: lak hpoi; Kabuverdianu: fisga; Kalmyk: мирд; Kazakh: тұмар; Khmer: កំណារ; Korean: 애뮬럿, 부적; Kyrgyz: тумар; Latin: amuletum; Latvian: amulets; Lithuanian: amuletas; Macedonian: талисман, амулет, амалјија; Malay: azimat; Manchu: ᡴᠠᡵᠮᠠᠨᡳ; Nepali: बुटि; Norwegian Bokmål: amulett; Nynorsk: amulett; Persian: کماهه, تعویذ; Polish: amulet; Portuguese: amuleto; Romanian: amuletă; Russian: амулет, талисман, оберег; Sanskrit: मङ्गल; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: амулет, талисман; Roman: amulet, talisman; Shan: လၢၵ်ႈၽွႆး, လၢၵ်ႈၽွႆႉ; Spanish: amuleto, talismán; Swahili: hirizi; Swedish: amulett; Tagalog: dupil; Tajik: тӯмор, таъвиз, тилисм; Telugu: Tayatthu; Thai: เครื่องราง, พิสมร, ของขลัง; Turkish: muska, tılsım; Ukrainian: амулет, талісман; Urdu: تعویذ; Uyghur: تۇمار, تىلسىم; Uzbek: tumor, tilsim; Vietnamese: bùa