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Headword:
*)/ompnios
Adler number: omicron,305
Translated headword: nourishing, of grain
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. An epithet of] Demeter, since she is responsible for drawing breath [a)napnei=n].
Greek Original:*)/ompnios: h( *dhmh/thr, ai)ti/a ou)=sa tou= a)napnei=n.
Notes:
cf. generally (but without explicit mention of Demeter)
Hesychius omicron828. (Wentzel attributed this entry to Atticists.) The adjective is derived from
o)/mpnh "cereal, nourishment," and is not related to the verb
a)napne/w. See generally LSJ s.v., esp. sense I.2 for the epithet of Demeter, attested in
Callimachus (and
Nonnus).
See also
omicron 303,
omicron 304,
omicron 306,
omicron 307.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 December 2009@00:15:39.
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