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Headword:
*(uperberetai=os
Adler number: upsilon,239
Translated headword: Hyperberetaios, Hyperberetaeus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: According to Macedonians [this is] a name of a month. [Equivalent to] October.
And [there is] a proverb: 'Hyperberetaios', in reference to the overdue; for amongst Macedonians the last month of the year was listed as Hyperberetaios.[1]
Greek Original:*(uperberetai=os: kata\ *makedo/nas, o)/noma mhno/s. o( *)oktw/brios. kai\ paroimi/a: *(uperberetai=os, e)pi\ tw=n u(perxroni/wn ei)/rhtai: para\ ga\r *makedo/sin o( teleutai=os mh\n tou= e)niautou= *(uperberetai=os a)negra/fh.
Notes:
For the Macedonian months see generally N.G.L.Hammond and G.T.Griffith,
A History of Macedonia, 2 (Oxford 1979) 48.
[1] cf.
Zenobius 6.30 and other paroemiographers.
Keywords: chronology; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 March 2006@05:44:55.
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