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Headword: *bussodomou=ntes
Adler number: beta,597
Translated headword: brooding, ruminating
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning they] pondering deeply.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] bu/sswma ["flax-net"].
"Trapping the roundel of tunnies with flax-nets of well spun linen in the grayish approaches of the sea."[2]
Greek Original:
*bussodomou=ntes: e)k ba/qous skepto/menoi. kai\ *bu/sswma. qu/nnwn eu)klw/stoio li/nou bussw/masi r(o/mbon fra/cantes glaukai=s e)n paro/dois pela/geus.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in Photius and other lexica; the headword participle must be quoted from somewhere. On this verb -- usually (from Homer, Odyssey, onwards) bussodomeu/w, of which the lexicographers' bussodome/w is a variant -- see generally LSJ s.v. Despite the remainder of the present entry, it is related not to bu/ssos "flax/linen" (cf. beta 596) but to busso/s "depth" (cf. beta 598).
[2] Greek Anthology 6.33.3-4 (Maikios/Maecius/Maccius), a dedication by fishermen to Priapus; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 280-283; and vol. II, 313) and further extracts from this epigram at alpha 1032, alpha 4532, pi 2275, rho 222, sigma 22, and phi 258.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
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Translated by: William Hutton on 16 April 2002@21:25:17.
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