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Headword:
*)epw|a/zein
Adler number: epsilon,2828
Translated headword: to brood
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [verb which means] birds sitting on their eggs.[1]
Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "now the hoopoe, as it seems, brooded its eggs differently, going into the coppice."[2] Birds are talkative when they are brooding.[3]
*)epw|a/zein: to\ e)pi\ toi=s w)|oi=s kaqe/zesqai ta\ o)/rnea. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisin: a)/llws a)/r' ou(/poy, w(s e)/oike, th\n lo/xmhn e)mba\s e)pw=|ze. ta\ de\ o)/rnea e)n tw=| e)pw|a/zein la/la ei)si/n.
Notes:
For this verb see also
epsilon 2829. Dunbar 224-226 has a long note on its proper form.
[1] The headword is present infinitive of
e)pw|a/zw, possibly extracted from somewhere in this form, or else simply generated by what follows. The passage quoted has the third person singular imperfect of this verb in a contracted form.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 266 (web address 1), preceding by a gloss derived from the
scholia there. See further, next note.
[3] This additional comment re-phrases what is stated more forcefully by a scholiast: birds sitting on their eggs 'shriek',
kra/zein. (With the substance of the claim contrast Dunbar 226: 'incubating birds are habitually silent'.)
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
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Keywords: comedy; definition; medicine; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 December 2007@01:50:00.
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