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Headword: *brwto/n
Adler number: beta,565
Translated headword: edible; fodder
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] food, nourishment.[1]
Xenophon [writes]: "he went up to the draft animals and, if he saw anything edible[2] anywhere, he gave it to the starving men."[3]
Greek Original:
*brwto/n: brw=sin, trofh/n. *cenofw=n: o( de\ pariw\n e)pi\ ta\ u(pozu/gia, ei)/ ti/ pou o(rw/|h brwto\n, e)di/dou toi=s boulimiw=sin.
Notes:
[1] cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 19.205, where the headword (accusative case) occurs.
[2] Or, "any fodder."
[3] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.8 (web address 1); cf. beta 440.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 5 October 2002@09:39:42.
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Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 5 October 2002@12:40:08.
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