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Headword:
*(uphne/mia
Adler number: upsilon,424
Translated headword: wind-eggs
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those [sc. eggs produced] without intercourse or copulation are called wind-eggs. But it is customary to call them "windy".
Plato in
Theaetetus [writes]: "[whether] it happens [to be] fertile [or] windy".[1]
Greek Original:*(uphne/mia: u(phne/mia kalei=tai ta\ di/xa sunousi/as kai\ mi/cews. su/nhqes de\ le/gein au)toi=s a)nemi/dion. *pla/twn e)n *qeaith/tw|: go/nimon a)nemi/dion tugxa/nei.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; imagery; philosophy; zoology
Translated by: John Mulhall on 7 June 2011@06:30:30.
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