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Headword:
Aiôra
Adler number: alphaiota,261
Translated headword: swing, noose
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] hanging, raising, lifting up.[1]
"As [the vixen] did not reach [the grapes], but grew tired leaping, getting nothing but a hanging noose, she went away beguiling her grief thus."[1]
Greek Original:Aiôra: anchonê, hupsôsis, eparsis. hôs d' ouk ephikneit', all' ekamne pêdôsa, ouden kremastês schousa pleion aiôras, parêlthen houtô boukolousa tên lupên.
Notes:
[1] cf.
epsilon 1894. According to Chantraine, this noun would be a post-verbal derivation from
ai)wre/w.
[2]
Babrius 19.6ab,7 (two verses in the place of the single verse 6 in the manuscripts).
Reference:
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque ed. 2 (Paris 2009), 22
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 November 2001@17:27:05.
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