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Headword:
Apia
Adler number: alpha,3197
Translated headword: pears
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A kind of fruit.
See also under
Antiphanes.[1]
Elsewhere it is written, that the fruit [is]
apia, but
apios and
apioi [are] the trees.[2]
Greek Original:Apia: eidos opôras. kai zêtei en tôi Antiphanês. heterôthi graphetai, hoti apia hê opôra: hê apios de kai apioi, ta dendra.
Notes:
[1]
alpha 2735 (this comic poet dies after being struck by a pear).
[2]
Apia (neuter plural) should be the fruit,
apios (feminine, second declension; plural
apioi) the pear-tree itself. See already
alpha 3194 and
alpha 3195. LSJ entries at web addresses 1 & 2 for
a)/pion and
a)/pios (A).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 May 2000@11:56:30.
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