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Headword:
*qre/mmata
Adler number: theta,472
Translated headword: creatures, nurselings
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also [sc. attested is the adjective]
poluqre/mmatos ["many-creatured"], one having many herds.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "for I have not come here to stoop at table after the manner of a brute creature to be fattened, to be hung about with offices and honors and to marvel at courts and tables and satraps. Neither is human beauty a bait for me, nor do I make money."[2]
Greek Original:*qre/mmata. kai\ *poluqre/mmatos, o( polla\ pro/bata e)/xwn. *ai)liano/s: ou) ga\r deu=ro a)fi/gmai e)s tra/pezan kekufe/nai kai\ qre/mmatos a)lo/gou di/khn piai/nesqai, kai\ a)rxw=n te kai\ timw=n krema=sqai kai\ qauma/zein au)la\s kai\ trape/zas kai\ satra/pas. ou)de/ moi ka/llos a)nqrw/pinon de/lea/r e)stin, ou)de\ xrhmati/zomai.
Notes:
The headword -- unglossed here, but glossed in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere -- is nominative/accusative plural of this neuter noun.
[1] See e.g.
Josephus,
Jewish Antiquities 6.29; and cf.
kappa 2441,
pi 1986.
[2]
Aelian fr. 30 Domingo-Forasté (27 Hercher); cf.
chi 480.
Keywords: agriculture; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; historiography; imagery; politics; zoology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 2 March 2008@22:04:07.
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