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Headword:
*bru/ei
Adler number: beta,569
Translated headword: teems, is teeming
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] blossoms.[1]
[He/she/it] is flourishing.[2]
"He ran straight up Mount Libanos and shot with [an arrow of] fire the plain that lay below teeming with grain, and the whole crop was gone, turned to ash."[3]
Greek Original:*bru/ei: a)nqei=. te/qhlen. o( de\ eu)qu\ *liba/nou tou= o)/rous a)ne/drame kai\ to\ u(pokei/menon pedi/on sta/xusi bru/on toceu/ei puri/, kai\ to\ lh/i+on pa=n te/fran w)/|eto gegone/nai.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; and cf. generally
beta 570.
[2] cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 17.56, where the headword occurs.
[3]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 166 Zintzen. See also
kappa 783, where, however, the subject seems to be feminine.
Keywords: agriculture; biography; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; geography; imagery; mythology; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 8 October 2002@13:34:12.
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