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Headword:
*(alieu/s,
a(lie/ws
Adler number: alpha,1218
Translated headword: fisherman [and] fisherman's; seaman [and] seaman's
Vetting Status: high
Translation: and [sc. also attested is the plural] a(liei=s, in reference also to rivers.
"Seamen mustered out of the surrounding cities set out on the day appointed for the launch." Arrian says [this].[1]
And [there is] a proverb: "I, a smitten fisherman, will keep my senses." A fisherman was handling the fishes he had caught, and when he was struck by them he said "I will keep my senses." It is similar to "Even an idiot knew when it had been done".[2]
Greek Original:*(alieu/s, a(lie/ws: kai\ *(aliei=s, kai\ e)pi\ potamw=n. e)k tw=n pe/ric po/lewn e)s th\n tetagme/nhn th=| a)nagwgh=| h(me/ran h)qroisme/noi a(liei=s e)feisth/keisan. *)arriano/s fhsi. kai\ paroimi/a: *(alieu\s plhgei\s nou=n oi)/sw. a(lieu\s tou\s a(liskome/nous i)xqu/as metexeiri/zeto, kai/ pote u(p' au)tw=n plhgei/s, nou=n oi)/sw, fhsi/n. o(moi/a e)sti\ tw=|: r(exqe\n de/ te nh/pios e)/gnw.
Notes:
The unglossed headword noun, given in the nominative and genitive singular, is also (according to Adler) in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
[1] Arrian,
Parthica fr.59 Roos-Wirth (FGrH 156 F116).
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 17.32;
Zenobius 2.14; quoted again at
rho 107.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; geography; historiography; military affairs; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 May 2000@22:55:29.
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