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Headword:
*)osso/menos
Adler number: omicron,697
Translated headword: daydreaming, imagining, picturing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning someone who is] conjuring up images, expecting. Or glancing at with his eyes.
Greek Original:*)osso/menos: a)neidwlopoiou/menos, prosdokw=n. h)\ toi=s o)fqalmoi=s u(poble/pwn.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 1.115, where this present participle of the epic verb
o)/ssomai is used (of Telemachos daydreaming about his father's return): see web address 1. (There is another instance in
Iliad 1.105.) For this sense of it, see generally LSJ s.v., II.
This verb comes from the root *
okw-, which supplies the future
o)/yomai for
o(ra/w.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; mythology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 May 2010@05:27:48.
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