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Headword:
*)oniai/a
Adler number: omicron,361
Translated headword: ass[-droppings], donkey-[droppings]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the excrements of a horse.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related plural word] o)ni/des, [meaning] the turds of asses/donkeys, which are formed conveniently.[2]
Greek Original:*)oniai/a: tou= i(/ppou to\ a)fo/deuma. kai\ *)oni/des, ta\ tw=n o)/nwn a)popath/mata, a(\ e)pi/thdes peplasme/na e)sti/n.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius omicron343, where Theodoridis endorses the view of Schleusner and M.Schmidt that the neuter plural headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) has been corrupted from
o)ni/dia (cf.
omicron 362).
[2] Sc. for feeding the dung-beetle. From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Peace 4, where the genitive plural occurs (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; medicine; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 December 2009@01:22:13.
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