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Headword:
Erineos
Adler number: epsilon,2993
Translated headword: erineos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the wild fig tree.[1]
Also [meaning] the fruit of the wild fig, which they attach to the cultivated [trees], so that from them the [insects] called yh=nes going over into the o)/lunqoi may make these ready to reach full ripeness.[2]
Greek Original:Erineos: hê agria sukê. kai ho karpos tês agrias sukês, hon apartôsi tois hêmerois, hôs an hoi ex autôn kaloumenoi psênes eis tous olunthous metastantes telesphorêthênai toutous paraskeuasôsin.
Notes:
[1] (
Ficus Caprificus; cf.
psi 71.) Likewise in
Hesychius epsilon5864, which Latte regards as generated by
e)rineo/n in
Homer,
Iliad 6.433; cf. the
scholia there.
[2] From
alpha 2308. Usually
o)/lunqoi are the fruit of the wild fig, but sometimes also the sterile summer fruit of the cultivated fig: see LSJ s.v. and
omicron 223.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 December 2005@12:15:20.
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