ἀνεμώνη
καλῶς γέ μου τὸν υἱὸν ὦ Στιλβωνίδη εὑρὼν ἀπιόντ' ἀπὸ γυμνασίου λελουμένον οὐκ ἔκυσας, οὐ προσεῖπας, οὐ προσηγάγου, οὐκ ὠρχιπέδισας, ὢν ἐμοὶ πατρικὸς φίλος → Ah! Is this well done, Stilbonides? You met my son coming from the bath after the gymnasium and you neither spoke to him, nor kissed him, nor took him with you, nor ever once felt his balls. Would anyone call you an old friend of mine?
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A poppy anemone, Anemone coronaria, Cratin.98, Pherecr.108.25, Theoc.5.92, Thphr.HP7.10.2; ἀ. ἥμερος Dsc.2.176. 2 ἀ. ἀγρία scarlet wind-flower, Anemone fulgens, ibid.; also called ἀ. φοινικῆ Crateuas Fr.4; ἀ. λειμωνία Thphr.HP6.8.1. 3 ἀ. ὀρεία, mountain wind-flower, Anemone blanda, ibid.; αἷμα ῥόδον τίκτει, τὰ δὲ δάκρυα τὰν ἀ. Bion 1.66. II metaph., ἀνεμῶναι λόγων flowers of speech (with suggestion of emptiness), Luc.Lex. 23.
German (Pape)
[Seite 223] ἡ, Anemone, eigtl. Windblume, da sie vom Winde leicht entblättert wird, Theophr.; ἀνεμώνη τῶν λόγων, gezierter Ausdruck, Luc. Lexiph. 23, windige Redeblumen.
