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Headword:
*pwli/on
Adler number: pi,2164
Translated headword: pony
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Foals [pw=loi] [are] properly the offspring of horses and of the other domestic animals, which we are accustomed to stroke and to soothe.[1]
Interpretation of a dream: "if you catch a fleeing strouthos, expect harm."[2]
Greek Original:*pwli/on: pw=loi kuri/ws ta\ gennh/mata tw=n i(/ppwn, kai\ tw=n a)/llwn kthnw=n, a(/per e)/qos e)/xomen kataya=n kai\ kolakeu/ein. lu/sis o)nei/rou: strouqo\n kratw=n feu/gonta prosdo/ka bla/bhn.
Notes:
The headword is a diminutive form of
pw=los (
pi 2171).
[1] From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Peace 75, where the headword occurs (web address 1).
[2] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251). On the
strouthos see
sigma 1215 (where this dream-interpretation also appears; why it appears under the present entry is mysterious).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; dreams; ethics; imagery; meter and music; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 June 2005@19:15:00.
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