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Headword: *)anqrh/nh
Adler number: alpha,2524
Translated headword: anthrene, athrene, hornet
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The hornet [is] a type of wasp.
Poets apply [the term] to bees also.
Also [sc. attested is] a)nqrh/nia ["hornet's nests"]: "[eager] to destroy our hornet's nests by force".[1] Obviously [meaning] bees. "Stung in both eyes as if by hornets, he will be destroyed by opinions."[2] The hornet is akin to the bee, and resembles a wasp. Also the hornetish[3] figure.
Greek Original:
*)anqrh/nh: ei)=dos sfhko\s h( a)nqrh/nh. kataxrw=ntai de\ oi( poihtai\ kai\ e)pi\ melissw=n. kai\ *)anqrh/nia: e)celei=n h(mw=n pro\s bi/an ta)nqrh/nia. ta\s meli/ssas dhlono/ti. tw\ o)fqalmw\ kentou/menos w(/sper u(p' a)nqrhnw=n, u(po\ tw=n gnwmw=n a)polei=tai. suggenh/s e)sti th=| meli/ssh| h( a)nqrh/nh, sfhki\ paraplhsi/a. kai\ to\ pla/sma a)nqrh/nion.
Notes:
See already alpha 753 and the note there.
[1] Aristophanes, Wasps 1080 (web address 1), with scholion.
[2] Aristophanes, Clouds 946-8 (web address 2), with scholion.
[3] We would say waspish.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 July 2000@18:36:14.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; augmented notes) on 9 March 2001@06:21:58.
David Whitehead (restorative and other cosmetics) on 13 August 2002@07:19:23.
Catharine Roth (updated links) on 21 April 2010@14:07:36.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 15 March 2012@07:34:37.
Catharine Roth (tweaked notes) on 2 November 2013@01:40:45.
Catharine Roth (typo, another keyword) on 2 November 2013@11:26:35.
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