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Headword: *drumo/s
Adler number: delta,1544
Translated headword: copse, thicket
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a wooded place.[1]
"In the copses a flame automatically sets the trees on fire when they are shaken by a violent wind and rub against one another."[2]
Greek Original:
*drumo/s: o( su/ndendros to/pos. e)n toi=s drumoi=s au)to/matos e)ca/ptetai flo\c tw=n de/ndrwn u(po\ sfodrou= pneu/matos kinoume/nwn kai\ a)llh/lois e)ntribome/nwn.
Notes:
[1] cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 11.118, where the headword occurs in the heteroclite plural druma/ (web address 1). See also delta 1530, delta 1541, and - for this word as the name of a city -- delta 1543.
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as an approximation of a passage of Theodoret, Interpretatio in Psalmos (PG 80.1537, on Psalm 82.15 LXX). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXI.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 March 2005@01:19:23.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics) on 27 March 2005@04:18:58.
Catharine Roth on 27 March 2005@10:55:37.
David Whitehead (source identification; another keyword) on 10 March 2011@09:17:15.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 3 August 2011@20:12:58.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 4 August 2011@03:11:45.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 11 October 2011@03:38:44.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 30 January 2015@00:50:03.
David Whitehead (coding and other cosmetics) on 16 November 2015@03:55:05.
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