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Headword: Minuretai
Adler number: mu,1102
Translated headword: warbles
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] sings.[1]
[He/she/it] weeps, mourns, says euphoniously.[2]
Sophocles [writes]: "... where especially the clear-voiced nightingale warbles constantly under the green glens."[3]
Greek Original:
Minuretai: aidei. klaiei, thrênei, euphônôs legei. Sophoklês: entha ligeia minuretai thamizousa malist' aêdôn chlôrais hupo bêssais.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is third person singular of minu/romai (for a commoner variant of which see mu 1103).
[1] cf. scholion on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 671 (see below).
[2] Same or similar glossing in other lexica: see the references at Photius mu463 Theodoridis.
[3] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 671-673 (web address 1); choral ode welcoming Oedipus to Colonus.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; imagery; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 May 2009@01:19:24.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 19 May 2009@02:57:03.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 23 May 2013@08:43:38.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 25 May 2013@00:17:53.
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