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Headword: Eleos
Adler number: epsilon,793
Translated headword: mercy
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In the masculine, [meaning] pity.[1] But [sc. note also] e)leo/s oxytone, [meaning] a kitchen table.[2]
Aristophanes [writes]: "go then, take down his table." That is, the little kitchen table.[3] Homer [writes]: "throw [it] on the table."[4]
But e)leo/s is also a kind of bird.[5]
Greek Original:
Eleos: arsenikôs hê eleêmosunê. Eleos de oxutonôs, hê mageirikê trapeza. Aristophanês: ithi dê, kathel' autou touleon. toutesti to mageirikon trapezion. Homêros: ballon d' ein eleoisin. esti de eleos kai eidos orneou.
Notes:
[1] Later also to\ e)/leos in the neuter.
[2] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 4.173A (4.73 Kaibel); cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 9.215.
[3] Aristophanes, Knights 152, with scholion.
[4] Homer, Odyssey 14.432.
[5] See eta 302.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; food; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 March 2006@00:41:44.
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David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 6 March 2006@03:18:38.
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