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Headword:
*)/oa
Adler number: omicron,1
Translated headword: oa, service-tree
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A kind of tree producing fruits on the upper branches, resembling small apples.[1]
[Its] fruit [is] h( o)/a.[2]
Greek Original:*)/oa: a)krodru/wn ei)=dos, mh/lois mikroi=s e)mfere/s. o)pw/ra, h( o)/a.
Notes:
Sorbus domestica. Manuscripts of
Theophrastus have various spellings of the tree-name: see LSJ s.v.
o)/a (A), at web address 1.
[1] Same glossing in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon and
Photius omicron1 Theodoridis; similarly
Hesychius omicron2 and elsewhere.
[2] The point of this addendum to the entry is unclear. The fruit should be
to\ o)/on (also variously spelled), 'service-berry' or 'sorb-apple', mentioned at
Plato,
Symposium 190D. For
opora in a more general sense cf.
omicron 481,
omicron 482,
omicron 483,
omicron 484.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; food
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 September 2002@21:19:53.
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