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Headword:
*)ipi/
Adler number: iota,541
Translated headword: by a woodworm, to a woodworm
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] by/to a worm. The nominative [is] i)/y, [then it declines] i)po/s, i)pi/.
Greek Original:*)ipi/: skw/lhki. i)/y h( eu)qei=a, i)po/s, i)pi/.
Notes:
cf.
iota 529,
iota 795. The present headword is the dative case of this noun, evidently quoted from somewhere (but only attested, twice, in this entry).
For this creature see e.g.
Homer,
Odyssey 21.395, with
scholia;
Theophrastus,
History of Plants 8.10.5,
Causes of Plants 3.22.5-6.
For the accent (and the gloss
skw/lhc:
sigma 684) see Herodian,
De pros. cath. 3.1.404,
Part. 55.7; further explanation (
to\ qhri/on diatrw/gwn ta\ cu/la, "the little animal which eats through the timbers", in
Il. pros. 3.2.30 (= 3.2.185), and etymology from
i)/ptw "I damage" is offered in
Orth. 3.2.528. Also cf.
Orth. 3.2.430.
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 24 March 2006@21:40:45.
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