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Headword:
*su=s
Adler number: sigma,1673
Translated headword: hog
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a pig.[1]
[Note] that u(=s [ought to be used] for the female, but su=s for the male.[2]
But they use [the forms] indifferently: "so that you may seem to be [offspring] of a good sow."
Greek Original:*su=s: o( xoi=ros. o(/ti u(=s e)pi\ qhlei/as, su=s de\ e)pi\ a)/rrenos. ke/xrhntai de\ a)diafo/rws: o(/pws de\ do/cht' h)=men a)gaqa\ suo/s.
Notes:
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in ms F.
[1] cf. scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 11.293, where the headword occurs in the dative singular (web address 1).
[2] cf. scholion on
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 741. The rest of the entry, including the quotation from this passage (text at web address 2), is taken from
upsilon 670 (see note there).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 October 2005@11:59:23.
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