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Headword: *(esmo/s
Adler number: epsilon,3162
Translated headword: swarm
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] multitude, crowd; properly, of bees.[1] [So called] from their flying along together.[2]
Greek Original:
*(esmo/s: plh=qos, o)/xlos: kuri/ws tw=n melissw=n. para\ to\ a(/ma petome/nas i(/esqai.
Notes:
Also in Photius, and similarly in other lexica and grammars.
[1] So in e.g. Herodotus 5.114.l; Diodorus Siculus 19.2.9; Appian, Bellum Civile 2.10.68; and see under sigma 426, sigma 735. But by imaginative extension of, e.g., women (Aristophanes, Lysistrata 353 -- see under beta 358).
[2] Rather, from their settling (e(/zesqai, epsilon 278).
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 December 2007@06:27:32.
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