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Headword: *)ere/sswn
Adler number: epsilon,2933
Translated headword: rowing
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning someone] pulling an oar.[1] "No longer will you rouse me from bed as before, rising early, rowing with dense wings."[2]
Greek Original:
*)ere/sswn: kwphlatw=n. ou)ke/ti m', w(s to\ pa/ros, pukinai=s pteru/gessin e)re/sswn, o)/rseis e)c eu)nh=s o)/rqrios e)gro/menos.
Notes:
[1] The headword is present participle (masculine nominative singular) of e)re/ssw, presumably extracted from the quotation given; cf. epsilon 2930, epsilon 2932, epsilon 2937, epsilon 2938.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.202.1-2 (Anyte), on a rooster killed by an unidentified predator; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 38), (vol. II, 97), and further lines from this epigram at rho 167 and sigma 460.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 21 May 2007@16:01:27.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added cross-references and keyword, set status) on 21 May 2007@21:20:51.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1 and keywords) on 22 May 2007@03:48:29.
David Whitehead on 25 October 2012@08:23:01.
David Whitehead (my typo) on 6 February 2016@09:38:06.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 13 August 2021@13:44:48.

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