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Headword:
*)eriqhle/os
Adler number: epsilon,2988
Translated headword: luxuriant, very flourishing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] very much in bloom.[1] "Formerly on pale-green shoots of luxuriant pine [...]."[2]
Greek Original:*)eriqhle/os: pa/nu qa/llontos. pri\n me\n e)pi\ xloeroi=s e)riqhle/os e)/rnesi peu/khs.
Notes:
For the
eri- prefix see under
epsilon 2977.
[1] The headword is genitive singular of
e)riqhlh/s (see
epsilon 2989). It is probably extracted from the quotation given here, though there is an earlier instance in Hesiod (
Theogony 30).
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.213.1 (attributed to
Archias), an epitaph for a cicada; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 412-415), (vol. II, 444-445), and further excerpts from this epigram at
alpha 3691 and
iota 397.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 8 June 2007@15:53:03.
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