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Headword:
*)erineo/s
Adler number: epsilon,2993
Translated headword: erineos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the wild fig tree.[1]
Also [meaning] the fruit of the wild fig, which they attach to the cultivated [trees], so that from them the [insects] called yh=nes going over into the o)/lunqoi may make these ready to reach full ripeness.[2]
Greek Original:*)erineo/s: h( a)gri/a sukh=. kai\ o( karpo\s th=s a)gri/as sukh=s, o(\n a)partw=si toi=s h(me/rois, w(s a)\n oi( e)c au)tw=n kalou/menoi yh=nes ei)s tou\s o)lu/nqous metasta/ntes telesforhqh=nai tou/tous paraskeua/swsin.
Notes:
[1] (
Ficus Caprificus; cf.
psi 71.) Likewise in
Hesychius epsilon5864, which Latte regards as generated by
e)rineo/n in
Homer,
Iliad 6.433; cf. the
scholia there.
[2] From
alpha 2308. Usually
o)/lunqoi are the fruit of the wild fig, but sometimes also the sterile summer fruit of the cultivated fig: see LSJ s.v. and
omicron 223.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 December 2005@12:15:20.
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