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Headword:
*oi)=stros
Adler number: omicroniota,181
Translated headword: gadfly, frenzy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] stimulation, heating, burning with madness.[1]
They call any impulse
oi)=stros. From this also comes
oi)strodo/nhtos muxo/s ["the whirling depth"], that which is driven by the wind.
Aristophanes [writes]: "and you, Poseidon of the sea, leaving the fishy whirling depth [...]."[2]
And the Pisidian [writes]: "for there is a frenzy, especially among the barbarians, to have an unstable inclination for change."[3]
*oi)=stros: e)reqismo/s, e)/kkausis, pu/rwsis e)mmanh/s. *oi)=stron de\ kalou=si pa=san ki/nhsin. e)/nqen kai\ oi)strodo/nhtos muxo/s, o( u(po\ a)ne/mou e)launo/menos. *)aristofa/nhs: su/ te *po/ntie *po/seidon, prolipw\n muxo\n i)xquo/ent' oi)strodo/nhton. kai\ *pisi/dhs: oi)=stros ga/r e)sti, kai\ ma/lista barba/rois, pro\s ta\s metabola\s eu)metaptw/tws e)/xein.
Notes:
[1] The headword means a stinging insect, hence anything that drives one mad. From this is derived "estrus" and the "estrous cycle"; cf.
omicroniota 178,
omicroniota 179,
omicroniota 180.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 322-5 (web address 1), with scholion.
[3] George of
Pisidia,
Heraclias 3 fr. 35 Tartaglia. Tartaglia notes (233, note 91) that the Pisidian's fragments 34-36 concern the actions of the Persian general Rhazates prior to his defeat in battle (December 627) with the Romans under Heraclius; cf.
epsilon 1141 note. On Heraclius, see
eta 465 generally.
L. Tartaglia, ed., Carmi di Giorgio di Pisidia, (Torino 1998)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; history; imagery; medicine; military affairs; poetry; religion; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 June 2005@00:23:24.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (tweaked translation; augmented notes and keywords) on 23 June 2005@03:15:03.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 8 August 2013@05:28:27.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 9 August 2013@01:33:58.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 19 August 2014@20:41:16.
Catharine Roth (tweaked reference) on 27 November 2014@00:22:02.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3; added bibliography, cross-references, and keywords) on 15 November 2025@11:20:48.
Ronald Allen (my typo n.3) on 15 November 2025@11:34:58.
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