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Headword:
*boro/n
Adler number: beta,397
Translated headword: gluttonous; appetite-inducing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] voracious.
[Pronounced] oxytone.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "an abominable thing, both foul-smelling and gluttonous."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "water [is] appetite-inducing and insomnia [is] appetite-inducing"; look in the [entry] "water [is]appetite-inducing".[3]
*boro/n: brwtiko/n. o)cuto/nws. *)aristofa/nhs: miaro\n to\ xrh=ma, ka/kosmon kai\ boro/n. kai\ u(/dwr boro/n, a)grupni/h boro/n: zh/tei e)n tw=| u(/dwr boro/n.
Notes:
The headword adjective, neuter nominative/accusative singular, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] i.e. with an acute accent on the final syllable:
boro/n.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Peace 38 (web address 1 below).
[3]
upsilon 52, where however nominative "insomnia" has become dative, ruining the sense. The quotation is from
Hippocrates,
De morbis popularibus 6.4.18.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; medicine
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2002@11:58:09.
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