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Headword:
Drumos
Adler number: delta,1544
Translated headword: copse, thicket
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a wooded place.[1]
"In the copses a flame automatically sets the trees on fire when they are shaken by a violent wind and rub against one another."[2]
Greek Original:Drumos: ho sundendros topos. en tois drumois automatos exaptetai phlox tôn dendrôn hupo sphodrou pneumatos kinoumenôn kai allêlois entribomenôn.
Notes:
[1] cf. scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 11.118, where the headword occurs in the heteroclite plural
druma/ (web address 1). See also
delta 1530,
delta 1541, and - for this word as the name of a city --
delta 1543.
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as an approximation of a passage of Theodoret,
Interpretatio in Psalmos (PG 80.1537, on
Psalm 82.15
LXX). See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXI.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 March 2005@01:19:23.
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