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Headword:
*)ora/mnous
Adler number: omicron,495
Translated headword: branches
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the Epigrams: "here the soil growing green with a flourishing branch showed all the grace of fruitful foliage."[1]
Greek Original:*)ora/mnous: e)n *)epigra/mmasi: e)nqa/de me\n xloa/ousa teqhlo/ti bw=los o)ra/mnw| fulla/dos eu)ka/rpou pa=san e)/deice xa/rin.
Notes:
The unglossed headword is accusative plural of
o)/ramnos, a later variant of
o)ro/damnos (
omicron 619). It must be quoted from somewhere, very probably from
Nicander, who uses the form several times. In the quotation which follows, the word occurs in the dative singular.
[1]
Greek Anthology 5.292.1-2 (
Agathias Scholasticus). While he was studying law across the Bosporos (
beta 401),
Agathias (see
alpha 112) wrote this epigram for his friend, Paulus Silentiarius. Find another extract from this epigram at
omicron 638.
Keywords: biography; botany; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; law; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 February 2010@15:21:59.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 24 February 2010@03:27:14.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 7 July 2013@05:21:42.
Ronald Allen (fixed Anthology reference) on 6 August 2023@10:24:20.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added cross-references, added keywords) on 22 August 2023@13:37:05.
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