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Headword:
*minu/retai
Adler number: mu,1102
Translated headword: warbles
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] sings.[1]
[He/she/it] weeps, mourns, says euphoniously.[2]
Sophocles [writes]: "... where especially the clear-voiced nightingale warbles constantly under the green glens."[3]
*minu/retai: a)/|dei. klai/ei, qrhnei=, eu)fw/nws le/gei. *sofoklh=s: e)/nqa li/geia minu/retai qami/zousa ma/list' a)hdw\n xlwrai=s u(po\ bh/ssais.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is third person singular of
minu/romai (for a commoner variant of which see
mu 1103).
[1] cf. scholion on
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 671 (see below).
[2] Same or similar glossing in other lexica: see the references at
Photius mu463 Theodoridis.
[3]
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 671-673 (web address 1); choral ode welcoming Oedipus to Colonus.
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; imagery; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 May 2009@01:19:24.
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