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Headword: *)ore/sths
Adler number: omicron,537
Translated headword: mountain-man; Orestes
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A man who passes his life in the mountains.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "may some Orestes break his head to pieces, in madness."[2]
Greek Original:
*)ore/sths: o( e)n o)/resi diaitw/menos. *)aristofa/nhs: ei)=ta katea/ceie/ tis au)to\n th=s kefalh=s *)ore/sths maino/menos.
Notes:
[1] Same gloss in Photius (omicron457 Theodoridis) and other lexica. This lower-case sense of the headword, and its etymology, is otherwise unattested (see LSJ).
[2] Aristophanes, Acharnians 1167 (here omitting mequ/wn "drunk": web address 1). See also omicron 538.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; medicine; mythology; poetry
Translated by: Amanda Aponte on 14 December 2009@23:10:54.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 15 December 2009@05:30:35.
David Whitehead on 7 July 2013@08:19:41.
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