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Headword:
Orestês
Adler number: omicron,537
Translated headword: mountain-man; Orestes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A man who passes his life in the mountains.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "may some Orestes break his head to pieces, in madness."[2]
Greek Original:Orestês: ho en oresi diaitômenos. Aristophanês: eita kateaxeie tis auton tês kephalês Orestês mainomenos.
Notes:
[1] Same gloss in
Photius (omicron457 Theodoridis) and other lexica. This lower-case sense of the headword, and its etymology, is otherwise unattested (see LSJ).
[2]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1167 (here omitting
mequ/wn "drunk": web address 1). See also
omicron 538.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; medicine; mythology; poetry
Translated by: Amanda Aponte on 14 December 2009@23:10:54.
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