[Meaning he/she/it] will cause to putrefy.[1]
Homer [writes]: "the land will rot your bones as you lie in
Troy."[2] It must be pointed out that when people died in a foreign land, their bones were not taken back to their homelands.[3]
*pu/sei: sh/yei. *(/omhros: se/o d' o)ste/a pu/sei a)/roura, keime/nou e)n *troi/h|. shmeiwte/on, o(/ti tw=n e)pi\ ce/nhs teleutw/ntwn ou)k a)pekomi/zeto ta\ o)sta= ei)s ta\s patri/das.
The headword is future indicative active, third person singular, of
pu/qw ('rot'). The glosses and comments are drawn from commentary to the passage from
Homer that is quoted (see n. 2); cf.
pi 3138.
[1] = Apollonius Sophistes,
Homeric Lexicon 137.19;
Hesychius pi4479.
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 4.174-5.
[3] For copious material on this topic, see W.K. Pritchett,
The Greek State at War IV (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1985) chapter 2.
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